Women, the state, and welfare/
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Madison:
The University of Wisconsin Press,
1990
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Table of Contents:
- 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: workmenʹs compensation and mothersʹ 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 womenʹs movement / Elizabeth M. Schneider
- 10. Ideology and the state: women, power, and the welfare state / Frances Fox Piven
- 11. Welfare is not for 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.