Women And Welfare

Author : Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351855271
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regulating the Lives of Women written by Mimi Abramovitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into welfare state rules and regulations define women as "deserving" or "undeserving" of aid depending on their race, class, gender, and marital status. Based on considerable new research, the preface to this third edition explains the rise of Neoliberal policies in the mid-1970s, the strategies deployed since then to dismantle the welfare state, and the impact of this sea change on women and the welfare state after 1996. Published upon the twentieth anniversary of "welfare reform," Regulating the Lives of Women offers a timely reminder that public policy continues to punish poor women, especially single mothers-of-color for departing from prescribed wife and mother roles. The book will appeal to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students of social work, sociology, history, public policy, political science, and women, gender, and black studies – as well as today’s researchers and activists.

Author : Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813528823
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Welfare written by Nancy J. Hirschmann and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social welfare state has come under increasing pressure, raising serious doubts about its survival. This book represents an interdisciplinary, multimethodological and multicultural feminist approach ...

Author : Sharon Hays
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195176018
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flat Broke with Children written by Sharon Hays and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the impact of recent welfare reform on motherhood, marriage, and work in women's lives. It also focuses on what welfare reform reveals about work and family life, and its impact on us all.

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299126633
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, the State, and Welfare written by Linda Gordon and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Elizabeth Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135800758
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Welfare State written by Elizabeth Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rights formerly guaranteed by our 'welfare state' are disappearing. Social spending has been cut drastically in an attempt to combat recession, globalization and restructuring, and the deficit. The decline of the welfare state poses special risks for women. The policies, benefits, and services of the welfare state are directly linked to women's basic freedoms.

Author : Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583670084
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under Attack, Fighting Back written by Mimi Abramovitz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abramovitz argues that welfare reform has penalized single motherhood; exposed poor women to the risks of hunger, hopelessness, and male violence: swept them into low paid jobs, and left many former recipients unable to make ends meet.".

Author : Mimi Abramovitz
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896085510
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regulating the Lives of Women written by Mimi Abramovitz and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book looks at the changes in AFDC, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance, and welfare "reform." This new edition reveals how welfare policy scapegoats women more than ever to justify widespread retrenchment and to divert the public's attention from the real causes of the nation's mounting economic woes.

Author : Marjo Kuronen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000203948
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Vulnerabilities and Welfare Service Systems written by Marjo Kuronen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies welfare systems in Europe and beyond from the standpoint of women in vulnerable positions in society. These systems are under major transformations with new models of service delivery and management, austerity measures, requirements for cost-effectiveness, marketization, and the prioritization of services. Divided into three parts: Welfare service systems (not) responding to vulnerable situations of women Women’s encounters with the welfare service system Contradictions of informal support this book considers the experiences and encounters with the service system of women in poverty, homeless women, women with substance use problems, women sentenced of crime, girls and young women in care, and refugees and asylum-seeking women. Drawing upon research and critical discussions from Finland, Canada, Israel, Slovenia, Spain and the UK, this book provides new empirical findings and critical insights, and a valuable resource for the academics and students in social work, social policy, sociology and gender studies, but also for policy makers and professionals in social and health care.

Author : David Zucchino
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth of the Welfare Queen written by David Zucchino and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter spends a year sharing the lives of two "welfare mothers" in Philadelphia, offering an emphatic but unsentimental look at those who rely on the patchwork of federal programs.

Author : Dána-Ain Davis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481301
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform written by Dána-Ain Davis and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. Dána-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black, living in a battered women's shelter in a small city in upstate New York. She explores the contradictions between welfare reform's supposed success in moving women off of public assistance and toward economic self-sufficiency and the consequences welfare reform policy has presented for Black women fleeing domestic violence. Focusing on the intersection of poverty, violence, and race, she demonstrates the differential treatment that Black and White women face in their entanglements with the welfare bureaucracy by linking those entanglements to the larger political economy of a small city, neoliberal social policies, and racialized ideas about Black women as workers and mothers.