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Book Reviews : Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950. By Susan L. Smith. Philadelphia: Universit ...

Book Reviews : Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America,... or absence of these conditions the uneven presence explains develop- ment of the countries. For family policies among eight example, Canada and the United societies that value States-heterogeneous individualism and the traditional self-reliance, patriarchal family structure and and it difficult to roles, gender family privacy-find reach a consensus about the level of in- appropriate governmental volvement in life and the labor market and are unable to come family to terms with their historic ethnic-racial discrimination and long- ambivalence about women’s roles in and outside the home. standing To become in the competitive emerging global economy, European countries have to reevaluate social that have balanced begun policies the needs of and families. Baker concedes that employers, employees, the block to major stumbling developing responsive family policies is the belief that are too much on social taxpayers already spending Yet lessons from the programs. gleaned European experience speak to the universal benefits of countries’ and even long-term maintaining social welfare that have a focus, improving policies preventive being committed to future social welfare financing programs, promoting and child and in that im- childbearing rearing, investing programs for women to combine work and life more prove opportunities family effectively. is filled with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Reviews : Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950. By Susan L. Smith. Philadelphia: Universit ...

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10.1177/088610999701200110
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or absence of these conditions the uneven presence explains develop- ment of the countries. For family policies among eight example, Canada and the United societies that value States-heterogeneous individualism and the traditional self-reliance, patriarchal family structure and and it difficult to roles, gender family privacy-find reach a consensus about the level of in- appropriate governmental volvement in life and the labor market and are unable to come family to terms with their historic ethnic-racial discrimination and long- ambivalence about women’s roles in and outside the home. standing To become in the competitive emerging global economy, European countries have to reevaluate social that have balanced begun policies the needs of and families. Baker concedes that employers, employees, the block to major stumbling developing responsive family policies is the belief that are too much on social taxpayers already spending Yet lessons from the programs. gleaned European experience speak to the universal benefits of countries’ and even long-term maintaining social welfare that have a focus, improving policies preventive being committed to future social welfare financing programs, promoting and child and in that im- childbearing rearing, investing programs for women to combine work and life more prove opportunities family effectively. is filled with

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Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work – SAGE

Published: Apr 1, 1997

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