Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction / Mink, Gwendolyn -- I. Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Welfare Politics -- 1. Dependency and Choice: The Two Faces of Eve / Solinger, Rickie -- 2. When Work Is Slavery / Boris, Eileen -- 3. From Maximum Feasible Participation to Disenfranchisement / Naples, Nancy A. -- II. Class, Race, and Gender in the New Welfare Regime -- 4. Welfare and Work / Fox Piven, Frances -- 5. Asian Immigrant Communities and the Racial Politics of Welfare Reform / Fujiwara, Lynn H. -- 6. Women, Welfare, and Domestic Violence / Kurz, Demie -- 7. Welfare's Ban on Poor Motherhood / Roberts, Dorothy -- III. Toward a New Welfare Politics? -- 8. Aren't Poor Single Mothers Women? Feminists, Welfare Reform, and Welfare Justice / Mink, Gwendolyn -- 9. Welfare, Dependency, and a Public Ethic of Care / Feder Kittay, Eva -- 10. Toward a Framework for Understanding Activism among Poor and Working-Class Women in Twentieth-Century America / Abramovitz, Mimi -- Contributors -- Index
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Welfare as a Condition of Women's Equality -- 2. How We Got Welfare Reform: A legislative History -- 3. Disdained Mothers, Unequal Citizens: Paternity Establishment, Child Support, and the Stratification of Rights -- 4. Why Should Poor Single Mothers Have to Work Outside the Home? Work Requirements and the Negation of Mothers -- 5. After Welfare's End -- Notes -- Index
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Welfare as a condition of women's equality -- How we got welfare reform: A legislative history -- Disdained mothers, unequal citizens: Paternity establishment, child support, and the stratification of rights -- Why should poor single mothers have to work outside the home? Work requirements and the negation of mothers -- The end of welfare
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