Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems

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SAGE, 16 jun 1999 - 256 pagina's
This book offers a powerful new approach to policy studies. Drawing on recent perspectives from social constructionism, discourse analysis, the sociology of social problems and feminism, Carol Bacchi develops a step-by-step analytical tool for deconstructing policy problems. Her `What′s the Problem?′ approach encourages students to reflect critically upon the ways in which policy problems get constructed within policy debates and policy proposals.
 

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Taking Problems Apart
1
Whats the Problem? An Approach to Policy
15
Traditional Approaches
17
2 Rethinking Policy Studies
32
3 Rethinking Social Problems
50
The Problem of Womens Inequality
65
On Whose Terms?
72
Who is Responsible?
93
Who Gains?
130
Whose Right?
148
Batterd Women of Violent Men?
164
What is Sexual about It?
181
The Politics of Policy Studies
199
Bibliography
208
Index
237
Copyright

Access or Transformation?
112

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Over de auteur (1999)

Carol Lee Bacchi is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide. Her publications include The Politics of Affirmative Action: ′Women′, Equality and Category Politics (Sage, 1996), and Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference (Allen & Unwin, 1990)

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