Overview
- An original piece that deals with issues not usually discussed in the literature (children, gender and families in the Mediterranean nations)
- Covers a wide variety of nations, some of which (Israel, Turkey, Cyprus and Malta) are seldomly discussed in the social policy literature
- The notion that there are common trends in the Mediterranean welfare states is unique
- Brings together leading scholars in the nations covered
Part of the book series: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 2)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Setting the Scene
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Country Studies
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A Cross-National Comparison
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
* John Gal is professor of social policy at the Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His fields of interest include social policy in Israel and in a comparative perspective, and the link between war and welfare. Recent books include a study on income maintenance in Israel, a study of the history of unemployment policy in Israel and Professional Ideologies and Preferences in Social Work: A Global Study with Idit Weiss and John Dixon. His e-mail address is: msjgsw@mscc.huji.ac.il.
* Mimi Ajzenstadt is a professor at the Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare and at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests lie in the areas of sociology of law, qualitative research methods and in the areas of social policy and the welfare state. She has examined the establishment and operation of social policy towards women in the Israeli welfare state, and has analyzed the history of the social construction of attitudes towards juvenile delinquency in the Jewish community in pre-State Palestine and in the State of Israel. Her articles were published in journals such as: British Journal of Criminology, Social Problems, Social Policy , Symbolic Interaction, Qualitative Sociology and Theoretical Criminology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children, Gender and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States
Editors: Mimi Ajzenstadt, John Gal
Series Title: Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8842-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8841-3Published: 29 July 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3280-3Published: 05 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8842-0Published: 01 July 2010
Series ISSN: 1879-5196
Series E-ISSN: 1879-520X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 226
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Gender Studies, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Social Policy