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Inventing the Needy
Lynne Haney
其他書名
Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary
出版
University of California Press
, 2002-06-03
主題
History / Europe / General
Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Archaeology
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Women's Studies
Social Science / Gender Studies
Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness
ISBN
0520231023
9780520231023
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ibgwDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"In her beautifully written, deeply researched, and elegantly argued book, Lynne Haney shows how much American policy-makers can learn from Hungary's social welfare experience. By unpacking the very different strategies that Hungary has adopted during the past half-century, Haney's account illuminates basic policy choices about how a society—any society—addresses the problems of poverty. It makes indispensable reading for those, on both sides of the Atlantic, who care about the lives of the poor."—David Kirp, author of
Gender Justice
"
Inventing the Needy
is a theoretically engaged and methodologically innovative ethnography of Hungarian welfare regimes from 1948 to 1996. Studying the state 'from below,' her multi-layered and multi-sited analysis of the transformations in state policies and institutional practices, and their effects on everyday life, is an important contribution to comparative studies of welfare states, the social construction of the materialization and materialization of need, as well as to critical socialist, postsocialist, and feminist studies. Well-written, lucidly argued, thoughtful, and thought-provoking!"—Gail Kligman, author of
The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania
"
Inventing the Needy
stands at the forefront of a new generation of revisionist scholarship. It dispenses with the sharp dichotomies of capitalism and communism and forsakes triumphal interpretations of the transition to the free market and liberal democracy. Looking at Hungary through the eyes of women and their experiences with successive welfare regimes, Lynne Haney offers a more balanced and variegated picture of the state socialist past and a more sober account of the capitalist present.
Inventing the Needy
is a brilliant combination of ethnography, history, and theory."—Michael Burawoy, co-author of
Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World
"Lynne Haney's provocative, original, and altogether brilliant study of welfare restructuring in Hungary in the wake of 1989 challenges us to rethink gender, states and social policies in both 'east' and 'west,' while providing essential conceptual tools for doing so."—Ann Shola Orloff, coauthor of
States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States
"This important book engages the central issue sociology faces after the fall of communism. Inventing the Needy is a careful, empirically well documented, and beautifully written analysis of the Hungarian welfare system during and after socialism. Haney shows that a critical analysis of capitalism is possible from the perspective of a socialist alternative, even today. She challenges 'transitologists,' who often contrast an idealized capitalist present with a homogeneous and negative view of socialism. This book is a must for those interested in theoretical debates about socialism and capitalism and in the welfare state and gender relations under and after socialism."—Ivan Szelenyi, author of
Privatizing the Land: Rural Political Economy in Post-Communist and Socialist Societies
and co-author of
Making Capitalism without Capitalists: Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-Communist Central Europe
