ABSTRACT
Whether childcare is seen as part of society's educational policy, welfare policy, or employment policy affects not only its form and content but also its public image. The contributors in this volume use current polices for the care of infants and preschool children to analyze debates and track the emergence of new state welfare practices across a variety of social and political configurations-and offer some conclusions about which methods work the best.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |27 pages
Introduction
Gender and Welfare State Restructuring: Through the Lens of Child Care
part I|64 pages
The consequences of weak feminism
chapter 2|14 pages
The Value of an Educational Emphasis
Child Care and Restructuring in Spain since 1975
part II|75 pages
The power of “choice”
chapter 5|30 pages
The Illusion of Free Choice
Ideals of Care and Child Care Policy in the Flemish and Dutch Welfare States
chapter 6|25 pages
Does Anyone Have a “Libre Ghoix”?
Subversive Liberalism and the Politics of French Child Care Policy
part III|95 pages
The impact of neoliberalism
part IV|68 pages
Preserving/creating universalism
