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" Gender and social justice in Wales / "
edited by Nickie Charles and Charlotte Aull Davies
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BL
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584378
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b413597
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| Title & Author
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Gender and social justice in Wales /\ edited by Nickie Charles and Charlotte Aull Davies
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| Series Statement
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Gender studies in Wales
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xiv, 265 pages :: illustrations,; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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9780708322680
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: 0708322689
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Setting the scene : devolution, gender politics and social justice / Nickie Charles -- Delivery or déjà vu? : gender mainstreaming and public policy in post-devolution Wales / Paul Chaney -- Gender and political representation : views from the grass roots / Sandra Betts -- Devolution, gender and childcare : a distinctive agenda for Wales? / Wendy Ball -- Developing a domestic abuse strategy / Nickie Charles and Stephanie Jones -- Mainstreaming across the equality dimension : policy on sexual orientation in Wales / Allison Parken -- Making the world new? : education in post-devolution Wales / Sue Sanders -- Gendered housing policy : women, housing and homelessness / Susan Hutson and Tamsin Stirling -- The material resources of older women in Wales and Welsh Assembly government policy responses / Vanessa Burholt -- Devolution and Welsh language policy : a gender dimension? / Charlotte Aull Davies -- The future / Nickie Charles and Charlotte Aull Davies
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| Abstract
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In 1999, the first elections to a devolved government took place in Wales and resulted in 40 per cent of Assembly Members being women. In 2003, this proportion increased to 50 per cent, which made the National Assembly for Wales the first legislative body in the world to have equal numbers of women and men. This book explores whether this gender balance amongst political representatives is connected with the formation of policies that address gender inequalities and also the impact of these policies on social justice for women in Wales. The first chapter discusses how gender and social justice can be theorized, and provides an account of devolution and its relation to gender politics. Subsequent chapters investigate different aspects of social policy, from gender mainstreaming to domestic violence and language policy, exploring the way different policies have developed since devolution and the extent to which considerations of gender and social justice for women are central to this development. The chapters show that strategic women within the National Assembly have been crucial in taking forward an agenda that furthers social justice for women but that the model of social justice that prevails in Wales is class-based. Superimposed on this is a commitment to gender equality, but this has not yet been integrated into policy development and, even where it is, a language of gender neutrality has been adopted which is compatible with a liberal feminist agenda. The book concludes that there is still some way to go before a gendered notion of social justice is fully integrated into policy formation and implementation. --
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Nickie Charles is Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick. She has published widely on many aspects of gender. --
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Charlotte Aull Davies retired from her position as Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology, Swansea University in 2009. Currently, she is an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University. --Book Jacket
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Women-- Government policy-- Wales
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Social justice-- Wales
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Women's rights-- Wales
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Wales, Social policy
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| Dewey Classification
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305.4209429
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HQ1236.5.G7G463 2010
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Charles, Nickie
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Davies, Charlotte Aull
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