[Brownbag] Fwd: Next Week's Colloquium: Ann Shola Orloff, "Farewell to Maternalism, " 10/17, 2-3:30pm, 402 Barrows Hall (fwd)

[Liz Ozselcuk]

Dear Brownbaggers:

Attached is the description of a Sociology talk that will be of interest 
to demographers....

liz o.
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This should interest demographers. Can you please circulate?

Thanks Liz

- Sarah
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Sarah K. Cowan
Ph.D. Candidate
Sociology & Demography, UC Berkeley
Email: sarahkcowan at berkeley.edu
Cell: (415) 235 8305
Website: www.sarahkcowan.com
Twitter: sarahkcowan



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From: John O'Donnell <od at berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:26 AM
Subject: Next Week's Colloquium: Ann Shola Orloff, "Farewell to Maternalism,
" 10/17, 2-3:30pm, 402 Barrows Hall
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 **[image: Ann Shola Orloff, "Farewell to Maternalism? State Policies,
Feminist Politics, and Mothers' Employment," 10/17, 2-3:30pm, 402 Barrows
Hall] **
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 Ann Orloff is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Northwestern
University.  Her research focuses on gendered social policies and feminist
politics. Orloff has authored and edited many books, including *Remaking
Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology* (with Julia Adams and Elisabeth
Clemens, 2005); *States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social
Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States* (with
Julia O'Connor and Sheila Shaver, 1999); *Politics of Pensions: A
Comparative Analysis of Britain, Canada, and the United States,
1880-1940*(1993); and
*The Politics of Social Policy in the United States *(with Margaret Weir and
Theda Skocpol, 1988).  Orloff continues to co-edit the journal she helped to
found, *Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society.
* President of the Social Science History Association in 2009-2010, she has
held visiting positions at the European University Institute (Florence),
Sciences Po (Paris), the Institute for Future Studies (Stockholm),  the
Australian National University, and the Russell Sage Foundation.****

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Professor Orloff’s talk draws from a new book on gender, equality, and care
in the rich democracies. She examines shifts in the gendered character of
welfare and employment policies in the U.S. and other capitalist democracies
and the implications of those shifts for feminism.  “Universal caregiver” or
“dual earner/dual carer” models for feminist policy initiatives to promote
greater gender equality may confront several institutional limits:  First,
capitalist business and political elites demand economic “efficiency,” often
understood as market employment for all, and an ideal worker who is
singularly committed to the workplace.  Second, “universal caregiver” or
“dual earner/dual carer” models may confront limits inscribed in the social
organization of gender, where “gender difference” remains potent culturally
and psychically.  Third, to date, maternalist, breadwinner and
citizenship-based policies have implicitly depended on perceived
similarities (often “racial” or national, religious) among beneficiaries. Do
proposals to better value caregivers and care work through arguments that
“children are public goods” depend on perceived population homogeneity?  The
paper explores these issues both normatively and through a cross-national
empirical survey of contemporary feminist initiatives across the rich
capitalist democracies.****
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