Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems

By Carol Lee Bacchi

Book Overview

This 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. Her What′s the Problem?′ approach encourages students to reflect critically upon the ways in which policy problems get constructed within policy debates and policy proposals.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761956743
• ISBN13: 9780761956747
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"