Women's Networks - A History of the Welfare Rights Movement

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In the late midlat sixties, in the welfare wrights movement, there was a kind of important pittsburg chapter. They did things as basic as like trying to get the security guard or cop out of the welfare office so that it was not a kind of carcoral or police space. And they fought also a very important struggle in pittsburg to keep plan parenthood open. So we can see it as a kind of struggle for different terms of social and sexual reproduction.

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