Inventing the Needy Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary

Name: Inventing the Needy Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary
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ISBN: 9780520231023

ISBN-10: 0520231023

ISBN-13: 9780520231023

Edition: 2010

Authors: Lynne Haney

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Inventing the Needy offers a powerful, innovative analysis of welfare policies and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the twentieth century. Using a compelling mix of archival, interview, and ethnographic data, Lynne Haney shows that three distinct welfare regimes succeeded one another during that period and that they were based on divergent conceptions of need. The welfare society of 1948-1968 targeted social institutions, the maternalist welfare state of 1968-1985 targeted social groups, and the liberal welfare state of 1985-1996 targeted impoverished individuals. Because they reflected contrasting conceptions of gender and of state-recognized identities, these three…

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 351
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Conceptualizing the Welfare State



The Welfare Society, 1948-1968



Socializing Need: The Restructuring of Social and Economic Institutions



Strategies of Integration: Collectivism and Individualism



The Maternalist Welfare State, 1968-1985


The Dynamics of Change: Hungarian Professionals Reform the Welfare Society



Maternalizing Need: Specialization and the Quality Control of Motherhood



Strategies of Expansion: Possibilities and Limitations



The Liberal Welfare State, 1985-1996


The Dynamics of Change: Professionalization and Globalization



Materializing Need: The Regulation of Poverty and the Stigmatization of the Poor



Strategies of Excavation: Inclusions and Exclusions



Welfare Lessons from East to West Methodological


Appendix Historical Excavation in an Era of Censorship


Notes


References


Index