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Ensuring Poverty - Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective (Hardcover)
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Ensuring Poverty - Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective (Hardcover)
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In Ensuring Poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the
gendered history of welfare reform. They foreground 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. Kornbluh and Mink
consider welfare policy in the broad intersectional context of
gender, race, poverty, and inequality. They argue that the subject
of welfare reform always has been single mothers, the animus always
has been race, and the currency always has been inequality. Yet
public conversations about poverty and welfare, even today, rarely
acknowledge the nexus between racialized gender inequality and the
economic vulnerability of single-mother families. Since passage of
the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
(PRWORA) by a Republican Congress and the Clinton administration,
the gendered dimensions of antipoverty policy have receded from
debate. Mink and Kornbluh explore the narrowing of discussion that
has occurred in recent decades and the path charted by social
justice feminists in the 1990s and early 2000s, a course rejected
by policy makers. They advocate a return to the social justice
approach built on the equality of mothers, especially mothers of
color, in policies aimed at poor families.
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