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Canada and the United States

Suzanne Mettler. Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1998. Pp. xvi, 239. Cloth $49.95, paper $17.95.

In the past decade, there has been a cascade of work on social policy characterized by the revisionist views of two major schools: the polity or state-centered approach (usually associated with Theda Skocpol) and the more diverse arguments of feminist scholars. The first approach emphasizes that social policies are determined not simply by the economic forces and elite design stressed in much prior scholarship but by the structures and mechanisms of the state, government agencies and administrators, constituents, and clients. Feminist studies of social policy sometimes have used the state-centered approach but added to that perspective an understanding of how the welfare state generates and exacerbates gender and racial inequality and privileges men, especially white men, within the state, labor force, and society. . . .

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