| dc.contributor.author | Ralston, Meredith L. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:37:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1992 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1992 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN80127 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55322 | |
| dc.description | This thesis will examine the theories of the New Right from the perspective of twenty homeless, addicted women. It will attempt to put their experiences in the context of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism to see whether or not either of these two anti-collectivist theories can adequately deal with these women's experiences. Can the theories explain the women's situations? Do the theories propose adequate solutions for these women's problems? | en_US |
| dc.description | The thesis will attempt to make two related arguments: first, that the policies offered for the family, and for racial and sexual relations--derived explicitly by the neo-conservatives and implied by the neo-liberals--are virtually identical, even though the theories of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism are very different in their view on freedom, the individual and the justification for the state; and, second, that the lives of the women interviewed would not be ameliorated and in most cases would be made worse by the policies of the New Right because of their failure to take into account how the women came to be homeless, addicted and on welfare. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1992. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Women's Studies. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political Science, Public Administration. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sociology, Public and Social Welfare. | en_US |
| dc.title | Failures of perception by the New Right: Addicted homeless women in Halifax. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
