Contents

pp iii-iv

List of tables

pp v-v

Preface

pp vi-vi

Notes on contributors

pp vii-xii

A Nordic model of gender equality? Introduction

pp 1-24

Part One - Meanings of gender equality in Scandinavian welfare policy

pp 25-26

one - Woman-friendly policy paradoxes? Childcare policies and gender equality visions in Scandinavia

pp 27-42

two - The claim of economic citizenship: the concept of equality in a historical context

pp 43-62

three - Married women’s right to pay taxes: debates on gender, economic citizenship and tax law reform in Denmark, 1945–83

pp 63-84

four - Family policy between science and politics

pp 85-100

five - Academic discourse, social policy and the construction of new families

pp 101-116

Part Two - Current challenges: competing discourses on gender equality

pp 117-118

six - The ‘new father’: gender equality as discursive resource for family policies

pp 119-134

seven - From powerful to powerless fathers: gender equality in Danish family policies on parenthood

pp 135-148

eight - Dilemmas of citizenship: tensions between gender equality and cultural diversity in the Danish welfare state

pp 149-166

nine - Women friendly? Understanding gendered racism in Sweden

pp 167-182

ten - Young women’s attitudes towards feminism and gender equality

pp 183-198

eleven - A Scandinavian feminist public sphere: discourses on feminism and gender equality

pp 199-214

Postscript Gender, citizenship and social justice in the Nordic welfare states: a view from the outside

pp 215-222

Postscript Future research on gender equality in the Scandinavian countries

pp 223-230

Appendix Tables 1-10

pp 231-238

Index

pp 239-244