1. See, for exampleThanePatWomen in the British Labour Party and the construction of state welfare, 1906-1939 Mothers of a New World: maternalist politics and the origins of the welfare states KovenSethMichelSonyaRoutledgeLondon1993342377ThanePatVisions of gender in the making of the British welfare state: the case of women in the British Labour Party and social policy, 1906-1945 Maternity and Gender Politics: women and the rise of European welfare states RoutledgeLondon199193118Although the latter article deals with some post-war issues, the major focus of discussion is the period 1900-1939
2. See, for exampleLewisJaneModels of equality for women: the case of state support for children in twentieth century Britain Maternity and Gender Politics BockThane7392Jane Lewis (1992) Gender and the development of welfare regimes, Journal of European Social Policy, 2, pp. 159-173LewisJane Women in Britain Since 1945 Basil BlackwellOxford199292113 women's Welfare: women's rights LewisJaneCroom HelmLondonThe otherwise excellent books by the historians Harris and Lowe only indirectly deal with gender. SeeHarrisJose William Beveridge: a biography Clarendon PressOxford1977See alsoLoweRodney The Welfare State in Britain Since 1945 MacmillanBasingstoke1977
3. For a concise assessment of the ‘New Right’ and for concepts of the ‘underclass’, seeAlcock Understanding Poverty 190198
4. SiimBirteThe Scandinavian welfare states: towards sexual equality or a new kind of male domination? Acta Sociologica 198730255270See also, Birte Siim (1990) Women and the welfare state: between private and public dependence, in Ungerson (Ed.) Gender and Caring, pp. 93-96; Berte Siim (1993) Gendered Scandinavian welfare states, in Jane Lewis (Ed.) Women and Social Policies in Europe, pp. 25-48 (Aldershot: Edward Elgar); Anette Borchorst &Birte Siim (1987) Women and the advanced welfare state – a new kind of power? in Anne Showstack Sassoon (Ed.) Women and the State: the shifting boundaries of public and private, pp. 128-157 (London: Hutchinson)
5. Lewis Women in Britain 94