Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States - Softcover

Abramovitz, Mimi

 
9781583670088: Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1583670084 ISBN 13: 9781583670088
Verlag: monthly review press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This new edition updates a highly acclaimed work with an analysis of the most recent developments in welfare "reform" and welfare rights activism. Drawing on first-hand reports of women forced to leave welfare and other newly available data, Mimi Abramovitz documents the impact of this historic change in public policy on the lives of poor single mothers and their children. She punctures the highly publicized claims that equate successful reform with shrunken rolls, showing that if the reformers set out to improve the lives of women and children, something went dangerously awry. Abramovitz argues that welfare reform has penalized single motherhood; exposed poor women to the risks of hunger, homelessness, and male violence; swept them into low-paid jobs, and left many former recipients unable to make ends meet. In four readable essays, Under Attack, Fighting Back also presents the long history of punitive attacks on programs for poor single mothers and applies a gender lens to conventional theories of the welfare state. The last essay, a short history of low-income women's activism during the twentieth century, pays special attention to the welfare rights activism spurred by the latest welfare reform. Contrary to popular wisdom, Abramovitz shows that poor women have always the courage and ability to fight back.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mimi Abramovitz is a professor at the Hunter College School of Social Work and author of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (1988), as well as many articles on women, poverty, and social policy for professional journals and the popular press.

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Verlag
monthly review press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1583670084
ISBN 13 
9781583670088
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
184
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