Regulating the lives of women
Book • 1988
Regulating the Lives of Women exposes the gendered and racialized myths and stereotypes built into welfare state programs.
The book explains the contextual conditions that contributed to the precursors of the modern welfare state, its rise and expansion after World War II, and the recent neoliberal effort to dismantle the cash assistance programs most likely to lift women out of poverty.
This edition marks the most extensive overhaul to date.
It revises the conceptual and background chapters, discusses cash assistance programs, and considers emerging ideas such as the role of economic crises in the development of the US welfare state.
It also considers the future of the welfare state under the second Trump Presidency.
The book explains the contextual conditions that contributed to the precursors of the modern welfare state, its rise and expansion after World War II, and the recent neoliberal effort to dismantle the cash assistance programs most likely to lift women out of poverty.
This edition marks the most extensive overhaul to date.
It revises the conceptual and background chapters, discusses cash assistance programs, and considers emerging ideas such as the role of economic crises in the development of the US welfare state.
It also considers the future of the welfare state under the second Trump Presidency.
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