Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index
Making gender, making policy -- On creating gender -- Toward a suitably complex framework of analysis -- Unfolding gender paradigms: a history of sexual politics in welfare policy -- Making masculine mothers: vanquishing feminality -- Policy casts fathers: deadbeats and scofflaws, good guys and promise keepers -- Gender ideology in practice: the case of Wisconsin's legislature -- Measuring gender's influence in congressional policymaking -- Recognizing of the sexual politics of policy