1. Revisiting the Feminization of Poverty in Cross-National
Perspective, Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
2. Sweden: The Feminization of Poverty?, Diane Sainsbury and Ann
Morissens
3. Feminization of Poverty: The French Case, Claude Martin
4. Germany: Deviating from the Male Breadwinner Norm, Ute
Klammer
5. The United Kingdom: The Feminization of Poverty?, Jane
Millar
6. Women's Poverty in Canada: Cross-Currents in an Ebbing Tide,
Patricia Evans
7. The Italian Case, Enrica Morlicchio and Elena Spinelli
8. Feminization of Poverty in Japan: A Special Case?, Kimiko Kimoto
and Kumiko Hagiwara
9. Feminized Poverty in the United States: Any Surprises?, Gertrude
Schaffner Goldberg
10. Summary, Synthesis, and Conclusions, Part 1: The Poverty of
Lone Women, Their Diversity, and Income Sources, Gertrude Schaffner
Goldberg
11. Summary, Synthesis and Conclusions, Part 2: Social and Economic
Policies for Lone Women, Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, DSW, is Professor of Social Policy and Director, Ph.D. Program in Social Work, Adelphi University.
"This encyclopedic collection documents how the decline of
marriage, markets, and the state in major industrialized countries
around the world has ensured that poverty remains feminized."
--Mimi Abramovitz, Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social
Policy, Hunter College School of Social Work and The Graduate
Center, City University of New York
"Goldberg has assembled a superb group of country specialists who
have written an important book for students and scholars interested
in the topic of cross-national continuities and variations in the
feminization of poverty in rich countries." --Mark Kesselman,
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Columbia
University
"This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in an
in-depth analysis of the economic status and life chances of women
in eight industrialized countries." --Marguerite G. Rosenthal,
Professor Emerita, School of Social Work, Salem State College
"These distinguished authors paint a rich and detailed portrait of
older women's poverty in eight diverse high-income countries. Their
collective research is wide-ranging, drawing on several national
and cross-national datasets to analyze the antecedents, patterns of
variation, and consequences of poverty as experienced by women
throughout the life course. This volume will be a valued resource
for comparative sociologists, social workers, and social policy
scholars concerned with gender disparities in economic
wellbeing."--Janet Gornick
Director, Luxembourg Income Study, Professor of Political Science
and Sociology, Graduate Center, City University of New York
"This ambitious book is based on excellent scholarship. Each
chapter is thorough and written by authors with expertise in
analyzing social welfare data and the political and social trends
that shape them... The book succeeds in providing data and largely
bridging the gaps among data differences and different poverty
measures among countries, and it contains rich, detailed
discussions of the countries' political and social contexts." --
Jennifer R. Zelnick,
Touro College Graduate School of Social Work, Journal of Sociology
& Social Welfare
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