Inventing the Needy: Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary

by Lynne Haney

Inventing the Needy offers a powerful, innovative analysis of welfare policies and practices in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the twentieth century. Using a compelling mix of archival, interview, and ethnographic data, Lynne Haney shows that three distinct welfare regimes succeeded one another during that period and that they were based on divergent conceptions of need. The welfare society of 1948-1968 targeted social institutions, the maternalist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520231023
• ISBN13: 9780520231023
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"