Gordon, Linda. <br/><br/>
Women, the State, and Welfare. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (325 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780299126636 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Feminism-United States.<br/>Poor women-United States-History.<br/>Public welfare-United States-History.<br/>Women-Political activity-United States.<br/>United States-Social policy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV95 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.83/0973