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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Abramovitz, Mimi

Titel

UNDER ATTACK: FIGHTING BACK: WOMEN AND WELFARE IN THE UNITED STATES (revised edition)

Ist Teil von

• CI, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000. +182 pp, 2000, p.182-182

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book examines the negative impacts (hunger, homelessness, male violence, deadend jobs) that recent welfare reforms have had on the work & family life of single mothers in the wider welfare state. In light of the long history of attacks on welfare & single mothers, it appears that politicians have been responsive to employers' fears that welfare disrupts wages & family-value advocates' fears that assistance to single mothers disrupts the patriarchal system. A review of the academic scholarship on welfare shows that early literature on the welfare state rarely included women, but feminist scholars have recently fought back & brought women on welfare into the foreground. Women have been active in the area of welfare rights activism throughout the 20th century, providing leadership & background support for the fight. The author concludes that social change can be effected through grass-roots efforts. This second edition of the book, updating recent development since 1996, contains a Preface, 4 Chpts, & Notes. M. Pflum