Jane Lewis

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Jane Lewis (* 1950 ) is a British sociologist . She is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics .

Her main areas of work include gender and welfare regimes, family policy and the history of social security. Together with Ilona Ostner, she decisively shaped the gender-related analysis of welfare regimes based on Gøsta Esping-Andersen . This means that caring regimes in particular should be examined. How is care of relatives, child care, health care and voluntary or voluntary work organized and supported by the state in a welfare state? How are gendered structures or processes embedded in it that lead to the majority of women carrying out care activities. According to Lewis, a central question of (feminist) welfare state research should be how care work is to be distributed equally between the sexes, classes and ethnicities.

Published books

  • Women's welfare: women's rights. Publisher Croom Helm, 1983, ISBN 0-7099-1610-8 .
  • Women in England, 1870-1950: Sexual Divisions and Social Change. Wheatsheaf Books, 1984, ISBN 0-253-36608-9 .
  • Labor and Love: Women's Experience of Home and Family, 1850-1940. B. Blackwell Publisher, 1986, ISBN 0-631-13957-5 .
  • Before the Vote was Won: Arguments for and Against Women's Suffrage. Routledge, 1987, ISBN 0-7102-1101-5 .
  • with Barbara Meredith: Daughters who Care: Daughters Caring for Mothers at Home. Routledge, 1988, ISBN 0-415-00681-3 .
  • Women and social action in Victorian and Edwardian England. Stanford University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8047-1905-5 .
  • Women and Social Policies in Europe: Work, Family and the State. E. Elgar Verlag, 1993, ISBN 1-85278-563-2 .
  • with Ilona Ostner: Gender and the Evolution of European Social Policies. ZeS, 1994.
  • The Voluntary Sector, the State, and Social Work in Britain: The Charity Organization Society / Family Welfare Association Since 1869. E. Elgar Verlag, 1995, ISBN 1-85898-188-3 .
  • Lone mothers in European welfare regimes: shifting policy logics. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1-85302-461-9 .
  • Gender and Welfare Regimes: Further Thoughts. In: Social Politics. 1997, pp. 160-177.
  • with Kathleen Kiernan and Hilary Land: Lone motherhood in twentieth-century Britain: from footnote to front page. Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-829070-5 .
  • with Jane Ritchie: Qualitative research practice: a guide for social science students and researchers. SAGE, 2003, ISBN 0-7619-7110-6 .
  • with Barbara Hobson and Birte Siim: Contested Concepts in Gender and Social Politics. E. Elgar Publishing, 2004, ISBN 1-84376-844-5 .
  • with Rebecca Surender: Welfare state change: towards a Third Way? Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-926673-5 .
  • Children, changing families and welfare states. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, ISBN 1-84542-523-5 .

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SURNAME Lewis, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist and social politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1950