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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Marjo Kuronen , Elina Virokannas , Ulla SalovaaraPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.700kg ISBN: 9780367228026ISBN 10: 0367228025 Pages: 174 Publication Date: 09 October 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction: women, vulnerabilities and welfare service systems. Part 1 Welfare service systems (not) responding to vulnerable situations of women. 2. Vulnerability as lived experience: marginalised women and girls in the UK. 3. Finnish welfare service system from the standpoint of women in vulnerable life situations. 4. Interpreting vulnerabilities facing women in urban life: a case study in Madrid, Spain. 5. Risky mothers: state-family relations, risk and the gendered reproduction of vulnerability in Canadian child welfare. Part 2 Women’s encounters with the welfare service system. 6. The right to have a child: an institutional response to the motherhood of drug users in Slovenia. 7. Incarcerated women, welfare services and the process of re-entering society in Finland. 8. The reform of the Finnish income benefit system from the standpoint of lone mothers. 9. Social framework for understanding women´s substance abuse, treatment and vulnerability. Part 3 Contradictions of informal support. 10. Low-income breadwinning Israeli mothers negotiating economic survival: the exchange of sex for material resources. 11. Vulnerability and agency: women after prison in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. 12. Peer support among female substance users in Finland. 13. Concluding remarks: a need for women-specific servicesReviewsAuthor InformationMarjo Kuronen is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Elina Virokannas is a University Lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Ulla Salovaara is a Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |