Whose Welfare? / / ed. by Gwendolyn Mink.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Abramovitz, Mimi,; Boris, Eileen,; Feder Kittay, Eva,; Fox Piven, Frances,; Fujiwara, Lynn H.,; Kurz, Demie,; Mink, Gwendolyn,; Naples, Nancy A.,; Roberts, Dorothy,; Solinger, Rickie,
• HerausgeberIn: Mink, Gwendolyn,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

Over the past few decades, the goal of welfare reform has been to move poor families off of welfare, not necessarily out of poverty. By that criterion, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 has been successful indeed: throughout the nation, millions have vanished from the welf...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• I. Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Welfare Politics
• 1. Dependency and Choice: The Two Faces of Eve
• 2. When Work Is Slavery
• 3. From Maximum Feasible Participation to Disenfranchisement
• II. Class, Race, and Gender in the New Welfare Regime
• 4. Welfare and Work
• 5. Asian Immigrant Communities and the Racial Politics of Welfare Reform
• 6. Women, Welfare, and Domestic Violence
• 7. Welfare's Ban on Poor Motherhood
• III. Toward a New Welfare Politics?
• 8. Aren't Poor Single Mothers Women? Feminists, Welfare Reform, and Welfare Justice
• 9. Welfare, Dependency, and a Public Ethic of Care
• 10. Toward a Framework for Understanding Activism among Poor and Working-Class Women in Twentieth-Century America
• Contributors
• Index