Ensuring poverty : welfare reform in feminist perspective / Felicia Kornbluh, Gwendolyn Mink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kornbluh, Felicia, author.

Mink, Gwendolyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Program).

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

Welfare recipients--United States.

Welfare recipients.

Low-income single mothers--Government policy--United States.

Low-income single mothers.

Poor women--Government policy--United States.

Poor women.

Poverty--Government policy--United States.

Poverty.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Ensuring Poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the gendered history of welfare reform, foregrounding arguments advanced by feminists for a welfare policy that would respect single mothers' rights while advancing their opportunities and assuring economic security for their families.

Contents:

Legislating the personal responsibility of poor mothers

Welfare (reform) as we knew it

Change they believed in

The new Democratic war on welfare

Welfare ends

Rethinking TANF as if mothers matter

Patriarchal consensus : gender and poverty under Bush and Obama

Conclusion. Toward ending the vulnerabilities of single mothers in poverty. Appendix. Women's Committee of 100/Project 2002, "An immodest proposal : rewarding women's work to end poverty."

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Dez 2018)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 18, 2018).

ISBN:

9780812295573

0812295579

OCLC:

1055045783