ABSTRACT
The emergence of a feminist literature that both challenges the dominant theories and concepts of citizenship and suggests alternative theoretical frameworks. The meaning of dependency reflects of a range of values and norms in a society. A self—evident reason for including women's economic dependency in families in analyses of inequality in welfare states is the fact that women who have economically dependent on husbands face a risk of poverty after divorce. The most problematic concept for constructing a theory of women's social citizenship is that of decommodification because it obfuscates the ways in which gender differences have built in welfare states. Recognizing the need to extend the boundaries of policy regime theorizing, some feminist scholars have suggests a gendered dimension beyond decommodification. J. O'Connor has argued for supplementing decommodification with a concept of non—dependency in personal life, insulation from personal and public dependence and insulation from market pressures.
