Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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: Making Entitlement Out of Necessity
  • Teresa L. Amott
  • Index.