Syllabus/achievement requirements

READING LIST

*Daly, M. and Lewis, J. (1998): "Introduction: Conceptualising Social Care in the Context of Welfare State Restructuring”, in Lewis, Jane (ed.), Gender, Social Care and Welfare State Restructuring in Europe. Ashgate: Aldershot. pp.1 -24. (24 pages).

* Ellings?ter, A. L.(2000): "Welfare states, labour markets and gender relations in transition" i Boye, T.P. and Leira, A. (eds.): Gender. Welfare state and the Market: Towards a new division of labour. P. 89 - 110. (22 pages).

*Esping-Andersen, G?sta (1990): The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press. pp. 1-35. (35 pages).

Esping-Andersen, G?sta (1999): The Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies. Ocford: Oxford University Press. (chs 1, 2 , 5, 8). (55 pages).

*Esping-Andersen, G. et al (2002): Why we need a new welfare state. Oxford: Oxford University Press, chs. 1-3. (95 pages).

*Ferrera, M. (2000): "Reconstructing the welfare state in Southern Europe", in Kuhnle, S. (ed), Survival of the European Welfare State. London: Routledge. pp 166-188. (22 pages).

*Hagen, K. (2001): “Towards a Europeanisation of social policies. A Scandinavian perspective, in Bouget, D. and Palier, B. (eds), Comparing welfare systems in Norway and France, vol 4. Paris: MIRE-DREES, pp 661-688. (27 pages).

*Kautto, M. et al (eds.)(1999): Nordic Social Policy. Changing Welfare States. London and New York: Routledge. Chs 1-2, 10- 11. (92 pages).

*Korpi, W. (2000): “The power resources model”, in Pierson, C. and Castles, F.G. The Welfare State Reader: Cambridge: Polity, pp 77-88. (12 pages).

*Kildal, N. and Kuhnle, S. (2005): The Normative Foundations of Welfare States. London: Routledge. Chs 1-2, pp 1-33 ( 30 pages).

Leira, Arnlaug, (2002): Working Parents and the Welfare State. Family Change and Policy Reform in Scandinavia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, chs. 1, 2, 4, 6. (100 pages).

*Leira, A. and Saraceno, C. (2002): “Care: actors, relationships, contexts”. In Hobson, B., Lewis,J., Siim, B. (eds), Contested concepts in gender and social politics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 55-83. (28 pages).

*Lewis, J. (1997): "Gender and Welfare Regimes: Further Thoughts", Social Politics, 4: 160-177. (18 pages).

*Orloff, Ann (1993): "Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States". American Sociological Review, vol 58, 303-28.(25 pages).

*Ostner, I.(2004): “’What are children for?’ Reciprocity and solidarity between parents and children", in Knijn, T. and Komter, A. (eds), Solidarity between the Sexes and the Generations. Transformations in Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Ch. 10, pp167-184. (17 pages).

*Pascall, Gillian and Kwak, Anna (2005): Gender regimes in transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Bristol: Policy Press. Chapters 1-2, (ca 50 pages)

*Siim, B. and Borchorst, A. (2005): "The woman-friendly welfare state revisited", in Kildal, N. and Kuhnle, S. (eds),(2005): The Normative Foundations of Welfare States. London: Routledge. pp 97-111. (14 pages).

*Tobio, C. (2004): “Kinship Support, Gender and Social Policy in France and Spain”, in Knijn, T. and Komter, A. (eds), Solidarity between the Sexes and the Generations. Transformations in Europe. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Ch. 9, pp150- 166. (16 pages)

About 650 pages.

* = in compendium. Compendium will be available at Kopiutsalget at the bookstore Gnist Akademika at Blindern. Please bring your student card.

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