Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy ProblemsThis is a profoundly thoughtful book that challenges accepted ways of approaching policy issues. It brings a refreshingly new perspective to some of the key areas that have exercised feminists for several decades' -Jeanne Gregory, Middlesex UniversityThis book offers a powerful new approach to policy studies. Drawing on recent perspectives from social constructionism, discourse analysis, the sociology of social problems and feminism, Carol Bacchi develops a step-by-step analytical tool for deconstructing policy problems. |
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Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems Carol Lee Bacchi Limited preview - 1999 |
Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems Carol Lee Bacchi Limited preview - 1999 |
Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems Carol Lee Bacchi Limited preview - 1999 |
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