Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (Revised Edition) / Edition 1

by Mimi Abramovitz

Overview

Praised widely as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, as well as political advocacy, Regulating the Lives of Women tells the story of social welfare from women's perspectives.

The critical new insights in this new edition of Regulating the Lives of Women will appeal to policymakers, activists, academics, and general readers interested in social welfare, sociology, women's labor, and African-American Studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900896085519
Publisher:	South End Press
Publication date:	07/01/1999
Series:	Women's Studies
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Editorial Reviews

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.

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