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Welfare reform and sexual regulation /

Inspired by the political interventions of feminist women of color and Foucauldian social theory, Anna Marie Smith explores the scope and structure of the child support enforcement, family cap, marriage promotion, and abstinence education measures that are embedded within contemporary United States...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Anna Marie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From paternafare to marriage promotion : sexual regulation and welfare reform
  • The ideological construction of paternafare
  • Comparing paternafare and the caregiver's entitlement
  • Welfare reform, reproductive heterosexuality, and marriage
  • From enslaved "broodmare" to "welfare queen" : patriarchal and white supremacist constructions of the Black woman
  • Welfare reform and the changing logic of governance
  • Welfare policy today : neo-liberal regulation of the poor or neo-eugenics?
  • Welfare reform and feminist politics
  • Appendix 1: Gender, race, and the TANF population
  • Appendix 2: Family structure and poverty
  • Appendix 3: Child support enforcement allocations in a neo-liberal fiscal environment
  • Appendix 4: The "swarming" of paternafare
  • Appendix 5: Race, ethnicity, and the family cap.