Children, Gender and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States

1. Investing in Children? Changes in Policies Concerning Children and Families in European Countries
Thomas Olk

2. Understanding Gender Economic Inequality Across Welfare Regimes
Hadas Mandel

3. Neighborhoods and Families
James R. McDonell

4. Exploring the Extended Family of Mediterranean Welfare States, or: Did Beveridge and Bismarck Take a Mediterranean Cruise Together?
John Gal

5. Children, Gender and Families in the Italian Welfare State
Valeria Fargion

6. The Erosion of “Familism” in the Spanish Welfare State: Childcare Policy Since 1975
Celia Valiente

7. Children, Families and Women in the Israeli State: 1880s–2008
Mimi Ajzenstadt

8. Gender, Family and Children at the Crossroads of Social Policy Reform in Turkey: Alternating Between Familialism and Individualism
Azer Kılıç

9. Gender, Children and Families in the Greek Welfare State
Theano Kallinikaki

10. Is There a “Mediterranean Welfare State”? A Country-Level Analysis
Anat Guy

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Quality of Life Research, Gender Studies, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Social Policy