Ensuring poverty : welfare reform in feminist perspective /

In Ensuring Poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the gendered history of welfare reform, foregrounding arguments advanced by feminists for a welfare policy that would respect single mothers' rights while advancing their opportunities and assuring economic security for their famil...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Kornbluh, Felicia, 1966- (Author), Mink, Gwendolyn, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Program)
Public welfare > United States.
Welfare recipients > United States.
Low-income single mothers > Government policy > United States.
Poor women > Government policy > United States.
Poverty > Government policy > United States.
Aide sociale > Bénéficiaires > États-Unis.
Mères de famille monoparentale à faible revenu > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Femmes pauvres > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Pauvreté > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Poor women > Government policy
Poverty > Government policy
Public welfare
Welfare recipients
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Legislating the personal responsibility of poor mothers
  • Welfare (reform) as we knew it
  • Change they believed in
  • The new Democratic war on welfare
  • Welfare ends
  • Rethinking TANF as if mothers matter
  • Patriarchal consensus : gender and poverty under Bush and Obama
  • Conclusion. Toward ending the vulnerabilities of single mothers in poverty. Appendix. Women's Committee of 100/Project 2002, "An immodest proposal : rewarding women's work to end poverty."

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