Women and Social Policy

the long version

Women and Social Policy is a major textbook on women and social policy in the 199Os. Written by a team of leading academics, the book provides an introduction to the key topics and issues in social policy as they directly affect women as both users and providers of welfare services. Women and Social Policy covers all the traditional core areas of social policy provision: employment, poverty and social security, housing, education, health, and personal social services. It also addresses a range of other relevant social policy issues such as race, community care, domestic violence and private welfare.