Tim O'Shaughnessy
Ashgate
Hardback
288
1994
This book offers a unique comparison of the situation of older women and their pension outcomes in Britain and Hungary between 1945 and 1990. It argues that in both West European capitalist and Central European (former) state-socialist societies, the dependent status of the older population should be viewed as socially constructed. The study considers the impact and central role of patriarchy within the production of welfare and seeks to develop a concatenation between patriarchy and dependency viewing them both as the operation of power relations within welfare. Furthermore the book uniquely utilises and develops Ferge?s conceptualisation of ?societal? policy. For Britain, this is employed in an implicit sense, for Hungary in an explicit sense.
Ashgate
Hardback
288
1994
This book offers a unique comparison of the situation of older women and their pension outcomes in Britain and Hungary between 1945 and 1990. It argues that in both West European capitalist and Central European (former) state-socialist societies, the dependent status of the older population should be viewed as socially constructed. The study considers the impact and central role of patriarchy within the production of welfare and seeks to develop a concatenation between patriarchy and dependency viewing them both as the operation of power relations within welfare. Furthermore the book uniquely utilises and develops Ferge?s conceptualisation of ?societal? policy. For Britain, this is employed in an implicit sense, for Hungary in an explicit sense.