| Whose Welfare?: The Albany Congress of 1754 Contributor(s): Mink, Gwendolyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0801486203 ISBN-13: 9780801486203 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $27.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1999 Annotation: 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 welfare rolls. But what has been the cost of this" success" to the women and children who were the overwhelming majority of recipients? Here a group of distinguished feminist scholars examines the causes and the impact of recent changes in welfare policy. Some of the authors trace the politics of welfare from the 1960s, emphasizing how attitudes toward "motherwork" and "working mothers" have evolved in the backlash against poor women's motherhood. Several other authors consider the effects of the new welfare policy on employment and wages, on the lives of noncitizen immigrants, on poor women's ability to escape domestic violence, and on their reproductive and parental rights. A third set of authors explores dependency and caregiving, along with the role of feminist thinking on these issues in the politics of welfare. Whose Welfare? concludes with a historical analysis of activism among poor women. illuminating that legacy, the volume challenges readers to build progressive agendas from the demands and actions of poor and working-class women. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness |
| Dewey: 362.838 |
| LCCN: 99037636 |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 5.44" W x 8.49" (0.70 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 welfare rolls. But what has been the cost of this success to the women and children who were the overwhelming majority of recipients? Here a group of distinguished feminist scholars examines the causes and the impact of recent changes in welfare policy. Some of the authors trace the politics of welfare from the 1960s, emphasizing how attitudes toward motherwork and working mothers have evolved in the backlash against poor women's motherhood. Several other authors consider the effects of the new welfare policy on employment and wages, on the lives of noncitizen immigrants, on poor women's ability to escape domestic violence, and on their reproductive and parental rights. A third set of authors explores dependency and caregiving, along with the role of feminist thinking on these issues in the politics of welfare. Whose Welfare? concludes with a historical analysis of activism among poor women. By illuminating that legacy, the volume challenges readers to build progressive agendas from the demands and actions of poor and working-class women. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mink, Gwendolyn: - Gwendolyn Mink is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942, and Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920, both from Cornell. |