Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (Revised Edition) [Paperback]

Mimi Abramovitz (Author)

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Paperback: 428 pages
Publisher: South End Press; 2nd Revised edition edition (July 1 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0896085511
ISBN-13: 978-0896085510
Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.5 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 476 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #601,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This critical historical analysis of U.S. social welfare policy argues that the "feminization of poverty" is not a recent development but dates back to colonial times. Abramovitz (social work, Hunter) demonstrates how rules and regulations of social welfare programs have been ideologically based, related to the assignment of homemaking and childcare responsibilities to women. She examines this policy, which has served women poorly, and its relationship to key programs: Social Security, AFDC, unemployment insurance. Ambitious and well researched, despite reliance on sweeping historical overview; of wide interest. Marie Marmo Mullaney, Caldwell Coll., N.J.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.