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Regulating the lives of women : social welfare policy from colonial times to the present / Mimi Abramovitz.
Author
Abramovitz, Mimi
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Third edition.
Published/Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Description
xxxviii, 316 pages ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HV699 .A424 2018
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Subject(s)
Poor women
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United States
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History
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Public welfare
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United States
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History
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Family social work
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United States
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History
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Social security
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United States
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History
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Summary note
Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into welfare state rules and regulations define women as "deserving" or "undeserving" of aid depending on their race, class, gender, and marital status. Based on considerable new research, the preface to this third edition explains the rise of Neoliberal policies in the mid-1970s, the strategies deployed since then to dismantle the welfare state, and the impact of this sea change on women and the welfare state after 1996. Published upon the twentieth anniversary of "welfare reform," Regulating the Lives of Women offers a timely reminder that public policy continues to punish poor women, especially single mothers-of-color for departing from prescribed wife and mother roles. The book will appeal to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students of social work, sociology, history, public policy, political science, and women, gender, and black studies - as well as today's researchers and activists.-- Provided by Publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A feminist perspective on the welfare state
The colonial family ethic : the development of families, the ideology of women's roles, and the labor of women
Women and the poor laws in Colonial America
"A woman's place is in the home" : the rise of the industrial family ethic
Women and nineteenth-century relief
Poor women and Progressivism : protective labor law and mothers' pensions
The Great Depression and the Social Security Act : the emergence of the modern welfare state
Old age insurance
Unemployment insurance
Aid to Families with Dependent Children : single mothers in the twentieth century
Restoring the family ethic : the assault on women and the welfare state in the 1980s and 1990s
Dare to struggle, dare to win.
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Social welfare policy from colonial times to the present
ISBN
9780415785495 (hardback : alkaline paper)
0415785499 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9780415785501 (paperback : alkaline paper)
0415785502 (paperback : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2017013030
OCLC
979565185
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