Women, the State, and Welfare
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Women, the State, and Welfare

  1. 311 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Women, the State, and Welfare

About this book

Women, the State, and Welfare is the first collection of essays specifically about women and welfare in the United States.  As an introduction to the effects of welfare programs, it is intended for general readers as well as specialists in sociology, history, political science, social work, and women's studies.  The book begins with a review essay by Linda Gordon that outlines current scholarship about women and welfare.  The chapters that follow explore discrimination against women inherent in many welfare programs; the ways in which welfare programs reinforce basic gender programs in society; the contribution of organized, activist women to the development of welfare programs; and differences of race and class in the welfare system.  By giving readers access to a number of perspectives about women and welfare, this book helps position gender at the center of welfare scholarship and policy making and places welfare issues at the forefront of feminist thinking and action.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Contributors
  5. Introduction: How to Read This Book
  6. 1. The New Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State - Linda Gordon
  7. 2. The Gender Basis of American Social Policy - Virginia Sapiro
  8. 3. The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780- 1920 - Paula Baker
  9. 4. The Lady and the Tramp: Gender, Race, and the Origins of the American Welfare State - Gwendolyn Mink
  10. 5. The Origins of the Two-Channel Welfare State: Workmen's Compensation and Mothers' Aid -Barbara J. Nelson
  11. 6. Representations of Gender: Policies to "Protect" Women Workers and Infants in France and the United States before 1914 - Jane Jenson
  12. 7. Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control - Linda Gordon
  13. 8. Struggle Over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late-Capitalist Political Culture - Nancy Fraser
  14. 9. The Dialectic of Rights and Politics: Perspectives from the Women's Movement - Elizabeth M. Schneider
  15. 10. Ideology and the State: Women, Power, and the Welfare State - Frances Fox Piven
  16. 11. Welfare Is Not/or Women: Why the War on Poverty Cannot Conquer the Feminization of Poverty - Diana Pearce
  17. 12. Black Women and AFDC: Making Entitlement Out of Necessity - Teresa L. Amott
  18. Index