Title Regulating the lives of women : social welfare policy from colonial times to the present / Mimi Abramovitz

Edition Third edition Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xxxviii, 316 pages) 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 Summary "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 U.S. welfare state history, offering a major corrective to earlier accounts. It successfully exposes how myths and stereotypes built into welfare state regulations define women as "deserving" or "undeserving" of aid based on their race, class, gender - and marital status. Published just after welfare reform's 20th anniversary, this third edition is a timely reminder that public policy continues to punish poor women, especially single mothers, for departing from prescribed wife and mother roles. Abramovitz's revised Preface highlights Neoliberalism's impact on women and the welfare state since 1996. It explains Neoliberalism as a response to the 1970s economic crisis and identifies the strategies deployed to dismantle the welfare state. Bringing women into the Neoliberal framework, Abramovitz argues that diminished social programs undermine the work of social reproduction carried out by the welfare state and women at home. Based on considerable new research, the Preface includes current data showing that the three core programs discussed in the book - Public Assistance, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance - continue to regulate the lives of women in the Neoliberal Era. "Trumpism" promises to worsen the already dire consequences for individuals and wider society. Well-researched but easy to read, Regulating the Lives of Women will appeal undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students of social work, sociology, history, public policy political science women, gender and black studies -as well as today's activists."--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Poor women -- United States -- History Public welfare -- United States -- History Family social work -- United States -- History Social security -- United States -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Family social work Poor women Public welfare Social security Sozialpolitik Frau Sozialstaat United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315228150 9781351855280 1315228157 135185528X 9781351855266 1351855263

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