Felicia Kornbluh, Gwendolyn Mink

Ensuring Poverty

Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

In Ensuring Poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the gendered history of welfare reform, foregrounding arguments advanced by feminists for a welfare policy that would respect single mothers' rights while advancing their opportunities and assuring economic security for their families.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780812250688
• ISBN-10: 0812250680
• Artikelnr.: 52417676

Autorenporträt

Felicia Kornbluh is Associate Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Vermont. Her book, The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America, is also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Gwendolyn Mink is an independent scholar and author of numerous books, including Welfare's End.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. Legislating the Personal Responsibility of Poor Mothers
Chapter 2. Welfare (Reform) as We Knew It
Chapter 3. Change They Believed In
Chapter 4. The New Democratic War on Welfare
Chapter 5. Welfare Ends
Chapter 6. Rethinking TANF as If Mothers Matter
Chapter 7. Patriarchal Consensus: Gender and Poverty Under Bush and Obama
Conclusion. Toward Ending the Vulnerabilities of Single Mothers in Poverty
Appendix. Women's Committee of 100/Project 2002, "An Immodest Proposal:
Rewarding Women's Work to End Poverty"
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments