Feminist Perspectives on Social Policy - Global Conversations

Bacchi, Carol (2009). Analysing Policy: What’s the Problem Represented to Be? Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson.

Béland, Daniel, Mahon, Rianne (2016). An Introduction to Social Policy. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar.

Bettio, Francesca, Plantenga, Janneke (2004). Comparing Care Regimes in Europe. Feminist Economics, 10(1), 85–113. https://doi.org/10.1080/1354570042000198245.

Bonfert, Anna, Wadhwa, Divyanshi (2024). Tracing Global Trends in Education: A Tale of Old and New Gender Gaps. Data Stories, World Bank Group. Accessed on 30.06.2026 at: https://genderdata.worldbank.org/en/data-stories/a-tale-of-old-and-new-gender-gaps#

Chancel, Lucas, Gomez-Carrera, Ricardo, Moshrif, Rowaida, Piketty, Thomas (Eds.) (2026). World Inequality Report. World Inequality Lab. Polity Press. https://wir2026.wid.world

Daly, Mary (2011). What Adult Worker Model? A Critical Look at Recent Social Policy Reform in Europe from a Gender and Family Perspective. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 18 (1): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxr002.

Daly, Mary, Lewis, Jane (2000). The concept of social care and the analysis of contemporary welfare states. The British Journal of Sociology, 51(2): 281-298. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2000.00281.x.

Duffy, Mignon (2005). Reproducing labour inequalities: challenges for feminists conceptualizing care at the intersections of gender, race, and class. Gender and Society, 19(1): 66-82. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243204269499.

Fraser, Nancy (1994). After the family wage: Gender equity and the welfare state. Political Theory, 22(4): 591-618. https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591794022004003.

Hernes, Helga Maria (1987). Welfare State and Women Power, Essays in State Feminism. Oslo: Oxford University Press.

Molyneux, Maxine (2007). Change and continuity in social protection in Latin America: mothers at the service of the state. GD Programme Paper No. 1, UNRISD, Geneva.

Naumann, Ingela K., Sakali, Joanna, Ribe, Eloi, Ralston, Kevin, Marshall, Alan, Packwood, Helen, Gorton, Victoria, Glover, Hanna (2022). Child and Parental Wellbeing during the Covid-Pandemic. Working Paper 1, Childcare and Wellbeing in Times of Covid-19 series. The University of Edin-burgh, Edinburgh. https://doi.org/10.7488/era/1914.

Pateman, Carol (1988). The Patriarchal Welfare State. In: Carol Pateman. The Disorder of Women, Cambridge: Polity Press. 179-209.

Razavi, Shahra, Staab, Silke (2018). Rethinking social policy: a gender perspective from the developing world. In: Sheila Shaver (Ed.). Handbook on Gender and Social Policy. Cheltenham, UK; North-ampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar, 74-89.

Roberts, Celia, Connell, Raewyn (2016). Feminist theory and the global South. Feminist Theory, 17(2): 135-140. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700116645874.

Sainsbury, Diane (1996). Gender, equality, and welfares states. Cambridge, University Press.

Sevenhuijsen, Selma (2003). The Place of Care: The Relevance of the Feminist Ethic of Care for Social Policy. Feminist Theory. 4 (2): 179–197. https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001030042006.

Tronto, Joan C. (1993). Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. New York: Routledge.