Episode 7: Purity Culture and Welfare Reform
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Welfare Reform and Racial Stereotypes in Society
The chapter examines the influence of societal perceptions on welfare reform, highlighting the stigmatization of unmarried women of color as lazy and undeserving of government support. It discusses bipartisan efforts in the 1980s promoting abstinence-only education to address welfare dependency, fueled by the problematic myth of the 'welfare queen.'
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