7. Welfare's Ban on Poor Motherhood

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Welfare Politics
5. 1. Dependency and Choice: The Two Faces of Eve 7
6. 2. When Work Is Slavery 36
7. 3. From Maximum Feasible Participation to Disenfranchisement 56
8. II. Class, Race, and Gender in the New Welfare Regime
9. 4. Welfare and Work 83
10. 5. Asian Immigrant Communities and the Racial Politics of Welfare Reform 100
11. 6. Women, Welfare, and Domestic Violence 132
12. 7. Welfare's Ban on Poor Motherhood 152
13. III. Toward a New Welfare Politics?
14. 8. Aren't Poor Single Mothers Women? Feminists, Welfare Reform, and Welfare Justice 171
15. 9. Welfare, Dependency, and a Public Ethic of Care 189
16. 10. Toward a Framework for Understanding Activism among Poor and Working-Class Women in Twentieth-Century America 214
17. Contributors 249
18. Index 251