Women Build The Welfare State

Author : Donna J. Guy
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822389460
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Build the Welfare State written by Donna J. Guy and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking history, Donna J. Guy shows how feminists, social workers, and female philanthropists contributed to the emergence of the Argentine welfare state through their advocacy of child welfare and family-law reform. From the creation of the government-subsidized Society of Beneficence in 1823, women were at the forefront of the child-focused philanthropic and municipal groups that proliferated first to address the impact of urbanization, European immigration, and high infant mortality rates, and later to meet the needs of wayward, abandoned, and delinquent children. Women staffed child-centered organizations that received subsidies from all levels of government. Their interest in children also led them into the battle for female suffrage and the campaign to promote the legal adoption of children. When Juan Perón expanded the welfare system during his presidency (1946–1955), he reorganized private charitable organizations that had, until then, often been led by elite and immigrant women. Drawing on extensive research in Argentine archives, Guy reveals significant continuities in Argentine history, including the rise of a liberal state that subsidized all kinds of women’s and religious groups. State and private welfare efforts became more organized in the 1930s and reached a pinnacle under Juan Perón, when men took over the welfare state and philanthropic and feminist women’s influence on child-welfare activities and policy declined. Comparing the rise of Argentina’s welfare state with the development of others around the world, Guy considers both why women’s child-welfare initiatives have not received more attention in historical accounts and whether the welfare state emerges from the top down or from the bottom up.

Author : Donna J. Guy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478090779
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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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 : Elizabeth Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113580074X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( 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 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and the Welfare State approaches the question of welfare policy from an entirely fresh perspective. In it the author argues that an appreciation of the way in which women are defined by welfare policies, and have been since the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, is essential to a true understanding of the nature of those policies and of the Welfare State. An important, possible the most important, function of welfare policy has been to promote and retain a particular form of the family; indeed, one can define the Welfare State as the State organization of domestic life. To illustrate her arguments the author looks at the development of State welfare intervention from the early nineteenth century to the present day and relates it to the changing position of women, children, and of the family. The traditional Marxist view is modified by a theory of the position of women and by relating changing welfare policies and beliefs about welfare both to the women’s movements of the past century and to the ideas and theories of the contemporary Women’s Liberation Movement. In her approach Elizabeth Wilson argues – uniquely among writers on the Welfare State – for an emphasis on the ideology of welfare.

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 : 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 : Seth Koven
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136638768
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mothers of a New World written by Seth Koven and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the United States provide a sweeping view of the scope of women's work and make comparisons across societies and over time.

Author : Helga Maria Hernes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare State and Woman Power written by Helga Maria Hernes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade, Scandinavian women have made significant advances in terms of political power and are beginning to make their presence felt in most areas of welfare state policy. The essays in this book analyze some of the factors which have facilitated women's entry into the public sphere, their participation in political movements and corporate politics, and the placement of women's issues onto the political agenda.