Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Abramovitz, Mimi
• Gwendolyn Mink
• Mink, Gwendolyn

Titel

Toward a Framework for Understanding Activism among Poor and Working-Class Women in Twentieth-Century America

Ist Teil von

• Whose Welfare?, 2018, p.214-248

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 has spawned many useful critiques of welfare “reform.” As aresult we know more about how individual women negotiate the welfare system. We also are learning about the impact of welfare reform on women forced to leave the rolls. However, we know very little about the ways in which low-income women—the majority of social welfare clients—have tried, as a group, to shape social welfare policy on their own behalf. The reporters and politicians who recently discovered middle-class “soccer” moms and working-class “waitress” moms regarded these politicized mothers