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Women, the State, and Welfare.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 1990Copyright date: ©1990Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (325 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299126636
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women, the State, and WelfareDDC classification:
  • 362.83/0973
LOC classification:
  • HV95
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: How to Read This Book -- 1. The New Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State - Linda Gordon -- 2. The Gender Basis of American Social Policy - Virginia Sapiro -- 3. The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780- 1920 - Paula Baker -- 4. The Lady and the Tramp: Gender, Race, and the Origins of the American Welfare State - Gwendolyn Mink -- 5. The Origins of the Two-Channel Welfare State: Workmen's Compensation and Mothers' Aid -Barbara J. Nelson -- 6. Representations of Gender: Policies to "Protect" Women Workers and Infants in France and the United States before 1914 - Jane Jenson -- 7. Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control - Linda Gordon -- 8. Struggle Over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late-Capitalist Political Culture - Nancy Fraser -- 9. The Dialectic of Rights and Politics: Perspectives from the Women's Movement - Elizabeth M. Schneider -- 10. Ideology and the State: Women, Power, and the Welfare State - Frances Fox Piven -- 11. Welfare Is Not/or Women: Why the War on Poverty Cannot Conquer the Feminization of Poverty - Diana Pearce -- 12. Black Women and AFDC: Making Entitlement Out of Necessity - Teresa L. Amott -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: How to Read This Book -- 1. The New Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State - Linda Gordon -- 2. The Gender Basis of American Social Policy - Virginia Sapiro -- 3. The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780- 1920 - Paula Baker -- 4. The Lady and the Tramp: Gender, Race, and the Origins of the American Welfare State - Gwendolyn Mink -- 5. The Origins of the Two-Channel Welfare State: Workmen's Compensation and Mothers' Aid -Barbara J. Nelson -- 6. Representations of Gender: Policies to "Protect" Women Workers and Infants in France and the United States before 1914 - Jane Jenson -- 7. Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control - Linda Gordon -- 8. Struggle Over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late-Capitalist Political Culture - Nancy Fraser -- 9. The Dialectic of Rights and Politics: Perspectives from the Women's Movement - Elizabeth M. Schneider -- 10. Ideology and the State: Women, Power, and the Welfare State - Frances Fox Piven -- 11. Welfare Is Not/or Women: Why the War on Poverty Cannot Conquer the Feminization of Poverty - Diana Pearce -- 12. Black Women and AFDC: Making Entitlement Out of Necessity - Teresa L. Amott -- Index.

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