Over the past few decades, the goal of welfare reform has been to
move poor families off of welfare, not necessarily out of poverty.
By that criterion, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Act of 1996 has been successful indeed: throughout the nation,
millions have vanished from the welfare rolls. But what has been
the cost of this" success" to the women and children who were the
overwhelming majority of recipients?
Here a group of distinguished feminist scholars examines the
causes and the impact of recent changes in welfare policy. Some of
the authors trace the politics of welfare from the 1960s,
emphasizing how attitudes toward "motherwork" and "working mothers"
have evolved in the backlash against poor women's motherhood.
Several other authors consider the effects of the new welfare
policy on employment and wages, on the lives of noncitizen
immigrants, on poor women's ability to escape domestic violence,
and on their reproductive and parental rights. A third set of
authors explores dependency and caregiving, along with the role of
feminist thinking on these issues in the politics of welfare.
Whose Welfare? concludes with a historical analysis of activism
among poor women. illuminating that legacy, the volume challenges
readers to build progressive agendas from the demands and actions
of poor and working-class women.
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