Women, the State, and Welfare

Name: Women, the State, and Welfare
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ISBN: 9780299126643

ISBN-10: 0299126641

ISBN-13: 9780299126643

Edition: 1990

Authors: Linda Gordon

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Women, the State, and Welfare is the first collection of essays specifically about women and welfare in the United States. As an introduction to the effects of welfare programs, it is intended for general readers as well as specialists in sociology, history, political science, social work, and women’s studies. The book begins with a review essay by Linda Gordon that outlines current scholarship about women and welfare. The chapters that follow explore discrimination against women inherent in many welfare programs; the ways in which welfare programs reinforce basic gender programs in society; the contribution of organized, activist women to the development of welfare programs; and…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 11/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.90" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Linda Gordon is the Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of numerous books including Dorothea Lange and Impounded, and won the Bancroft Prize for The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. She lives in New York.