Women, the state, and welfare (University of Wisconsin Press, 1990)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
The new feminist scholarship on the welfare state - Linda Gordon -- - The gender basis of American social policy - Virginia Sapiro -- - The domestication of politics : women and American political society, 1780-1920 - Paula Baker -- - The lady and the tramp : gender, race, and the origins of the American welfare state - Gwendolyn Mink -- - The origins of the two-channel welfare state : workmen's compensation and mothers' aid - Barbara J. Nelson -- - Representations of gender : policies to "protect" women workers and infants in France and the United States before 1914 - Jane Jenson -- - Family violence, feminism, and social control - Linda Gordon -- - Struggle over needs : outline of a socialist-feminist critical theory of late-capitalist political culture - Nancy Fraser -- - The dialectic of rights and politics: perspectives from the women's movement - Elizabeth M. Schneider -- - Ideology and the state : women, power, and the welfare state - Frances Fox Piven -- - Welfare is not for women : why the war on poverty cannot conquer the feminization of poverty - Diana Pearce -- - Black women and AFDC : making entitlement out of necessity - Teresa L. Amott