Women, the Family, and Policy

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Women, the Family, and Policy is written by Professor Esther Ngan Chow and published by SUNY Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791417859 (ISBN 10) and 9780791417850 (ISBN 13).

The authors highlight how structural circumstances in countries with various degrees of industrialization are associated with specific policies. The analyses of women's experiences reveal the variety of ways in which private patriarchy in families combines with public patriarchy in economies and states to create a system of domination which subordinates women. The authors detail how gender is constructed under specific political, economic, and cultural circumstances, and seek to understand how state policies with differing sensitivities to women's issues have produced mixed outcomes for women and their families in the process of economic development.