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Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

Abramovitz, Mimi

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General Gender StudiesSocial Movements

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ISBN10: 0415785502
ISBN13: 9780415785501
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 22 2017
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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