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UNINA9910812169303321 |
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Titolo |
Women, the state, and welfare / / edited by Linda Gordon |
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Madison, Wis. : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 1990 |
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©1990 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-69225-2 |
0-299-12663-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 311 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Feminism - United States |
Poor women - United States - History |
Public welfare - United States - History |
Women - Political activity - United States |
United States Social policy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 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: Workmen's Compensation and Mothers' 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 Women's Movement - Elizabeth M. Schneider -- 10. Ideology and the State: Women, Power, and the Welfare State - Frances Fox Piven -- 11. Welfare Is Not/or Women: Why the War on Poverty Cannot Conquer the Feminization of Poverty - Diana Pearce -- 12. Black Women and AFDC: |
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Making Entitlement Out of Necessity - Teresa L. Amott -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A collection of essays about women and welfare in America, this book discusses how welfare programmes affect women and how gender relations have influenced the structure of such programmes. Issues such as race and class are also discussed. |
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