EHG015 The Swedish Model and Equality:
Family Policy and Gender Relations
Autumn 2013
Required Readings
Book
Melby, K, Ravn, Ravn, Anna-Birte, Wetterberg, Carlsson Christina (eds.) (2008) Gender equality and
welfare politics in Scandinavia: the limits of political ambition? Bristol: Policy
Book chapters
Esping-Andersen, G. (2006), “Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism”, in Pierson, C. & Castles, F. G. (ed),
The Welfare State Reader, 2nd Edition, Polity press
Kremer, Monique, (2007) How welfare states care: culture, gender and parenting in Europe. Chapter 2,
“Cinderella and Snow White Are Fairy Tales: Linking Care and Citizenship” (available as e-book at GU
university library)
Magnusson, Charlotta, (2010) Mind the Gap: Essays on Explanations of Gender Wage Inequality
(available as e-book at GU university library) pages 1-29 (Introduction)
Ohlander, Ann-Sofie, (1991) “The invisible child? The struggle for a Social Democratic family policy in
Sweden, 1900-1960’s” in Bock & Thane (eds.) Maternity & Gender Policies. Women and the Rise of the
European Welfare States 1880s-1950s, Routledge
Articles
Engster, Daniel & Olofsdotter Stensöta, Helena (2011) “Do Family Policy Regimes Matter for Children’s
Well-Being?” in Social Politics
Lewis, Jane, (1992) “Gender and the Development of Welfare Regimes”, Journal of European Social
Policy vol. 2 no. 3 159-173
Jane Lewis and Gertrude Åström,(1992) ”Equality, Difference, and State Welfare: Labor Market and
Family Policies in Sweden”, Feminist Studies Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), pp. 59-87
Lundberg, U & Åmark, K, “Social Rights and Social Security: The Swedish Welfare State, 1900–2000”,
Scandinavian Journal of History, Volume 26, Number 3 / September 2001, Pages: 157 – 176
Nyberg, A “From Foster Mothers to Child Care Centers: A History of Working mothers and Child Care in
Sweden”, in Feminist Economics 6 (1) 2000, pp 5-20
Other
PODCAST: Folbre, Nancy. “The Cost of Care”, International Museum of Women,
http://imow.org/economica/resources/podcasts/item?id=224.
All texts, except the book Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia: the limits of
political ambition? and the Esping-Andersen book chapter are available as electronic
resources at www.ub.gu.se . Copies of the article by Ohlander will be provided by the
teachers.