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• W252819708 abstract "The intention of this thesis is to use a critical feminist theoretical framework to explore therelationship between government ideology, child care subsidy policies and services and thematerialities of women’s lives. This exploration is undertaken by:• Comparing child care subsidy policies and services in California and Australia.• Focusing on the experiences and accounts of women service users in California andAustralia.These aims are consistent with feminist literature that encourages researchers to look foremerging representations of child care, and also to position child care issues in a range ofgender equity and social justice discourses.Critical feminist theory informs all aspects of the study. It provides the context for framing thetopic, choosing the methodology, and the analytical lens used for the interpretation of theliterature and the data. The methodology is micro-level, cross-national comparative andqualitative. This study relies on in-depth interviewing as the primary data gathering method.Qualitative, cross-national comparative research that values feminist theorising provides aunique opportunity to explore child care policy. This study demonstrated that the ideologies thatbenefit patriarchy are embedded in subsidised child care policies and are active cross-nationally.In this study the impact of these ideologies differed only in degree, not in the patriarchal intentof the policies.The women’s material lives were shaped in different ways by their respective subsidy contexts.For the Californian women, accessing a scarce residual service required them to be highlyresourceful. They were not able to choose the child care they preferred, change their child carearrangements if dissatisfied with the quality, or pursue employment advancement because theadditional income would preclude subsidy access. The Australian women saw their semiuniversalsubsidy service as an entitlement. The higher levels of subsidy meant they were moreable than the Californian women to choose the care arrangement they preferred. In reality,though, infant and community based child care were difficult to access, the cost of care was asignificant issue for middle-income women, and the women spent a substantial amount of timeand effort locating quality care they could afford.The women’s lives were also shaped by their experiences of poverty, racism, individualism andsexism. Their vulnerability to these forms of oppression was increased by the use of subsidyservices. The Californian women recognised their disadvantage due to class and race and actively resisted the construction of themselves implicit in these forms of oppression. TheAustralian women did not identify class and race as forms of oppression related to their use ofsubsidy. However, the semi-universal nature of child care subsidy provided the Australianwomen with the illusion of choice and obscured aspects of the system that reinforcedconservative roles for women. Whilst the residual Californian subsidy service foregroundedoppression based on race and class, it obscured the respondents’ ability to conceptualise theirexperiences as gendered. For both groups of women their gendered disadvantage was renderedinvisible by neo-liberal individualism and therefore difficult to identify and actively resist.Nevertheless and despite these barriers, both groups of women recognised that child caresubsidy services were not provided to meet the needs of women. They believed policy makerswere selfishly motivated and concerned with maintaining their own positions of power andprivilege.This study reinforces the value of critical feminist theorising that identifies the ideologiesembedded in social policies. Placing women’s experience at the centre of this policy analysisrevealed the effects of ideological decision making on the materiality of women’s lives. Thisthesis provides a strong endorsement for the engagement of feminist policy makers andmembers of the women’s movement with child care policy. Without this feminist engagementthe mechanisms of patriarchal power, implicit in social policy, will remain obscured andunchallenged." @default.
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• W252819708 title "The effects of ideological decision making on the materiality of women's lives : a comparative study of child care subsidy policies and services in Australia and California" @default.
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