Women Build The Welfare State
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Author |
: Donna J. Guy |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2009-01-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822389460 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822389460 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women Build the Welfare State by : Donna J. Guy
In this pathbreaking history, Donna J. Guy shows how feminists, social workers, and female philanthropists contributed to the emergence of the Argentine welfare state through their advocacy of child welfare and family-law reform. From the creation of the government-subsidized Society of Beneficence in 1823, women were at the forefront of the child-focused philanthropic and municipal groups that proliferated first to address the impact of urbanization, European immigration, and high infant mortality rates, and later to meet the needs of wayward, abandoned, and delinquent children. Women staffed child-centered organizations that received subsidies from all levels of government. Their interest in children also led them into the battle for female suffrage and the campaign to promote the legal adoption of children. When Juan Perón expanded the welfare system during his presidency (1946–1955), he reorganized private charitable organizations that had, until then, often been led by elite and immigrant women. Drawing on extensive research in Argentine archives, Guy reveals significant continuities in Argentine history, including the rise of a liberal state that subsidized all kinds of women’s and religious groups. State and private welfare efforts became more organized in the 1930s and reached a pinnacle under Juan Perón, when men took over the welfare state and philanthropic and feminist women’s influence on child-welfare activities and policy declined. Comparing the rise of Argentina’s welfare state with the development of others around the world, Guy considers both why women’s child-welfare initiatives have not received more attention in historical accounts and whether the welfare state emerges from the top down or from the bottom up.
Author |
: Donna J. Guy |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1478090774 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781478090779 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women Build the Welfare State by : Donna J. Guy
Author |
: Linda Gordon |
Publisher |
: University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages |
: 325 |
Release |
: 2012-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780299126636 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0299126633 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women, the State, and Welfare by : Linda Gordon
A collection of essays about women and welfare in America, this book discusses how welfare programmes affect women and how gender relations have influenced the structure of such programmes. Issues such as race and class are also discussed.
Author |
: Elizabeth Wilson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2002-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135800758 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135800758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and the Welfare State by : Elizabeth Wilson
Rights formerly guaranteed by our 'welfare state' are disappearing. Social spending has been cut drastically in an attempt to combat recession, globalization and restructuring, and the deficit. The decline of the welfare state poses special risks for women. The policies, benefits, and services of the welfare state are directly linked to women's basic freedoms.
Author |
: Mimi Abramovitz |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2017-08-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351855273 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351855271 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regulating the Lives of Women by : Mimi Abramovitz
Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into welfare state rules and regulations define women as "deserving" or "undeserving" of aid depending on their race, class, gender, and marital status. Based on considerable new research, the preface to this third edition explains the rise of Neoliberal policies in the mid-1970s, the strategies deployed since then to dismantle the welfare state, and the impact of this sea change on women and the welfare state after 1996. Published upon the twentieth anniversary of "welfare reform," Regulating the Lives of Women offers a timely reminder that public policy continues to punish poor women, especially single mothers-of-color for departing from prescribed wife and mother roles. The book will appeal to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students of social work, sociology, history, public policy, political science, and women, gender, and black studies – as well as today’s researchers and activists.
Author |
: Elizabeth Wilson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2002-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135800741 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113580074X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and the Welfare State by : Elizabeth Wilson
Women and the Welfare State approaches the question of welfare policy from an entirely fresh perspective. In it the author argues that an appreciation of the way in which women are defined by welfare policies, and have been since the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, is essential to a true understanding of the nature of those policies and of the Welfare State. An important, possible the most important, function of welfare policy has been to promote and retain a particular form of the family; indeed, one can define the Welfare State as the State organization of domestic life. To illustrate her arguments the author looks at the development of State welfare intervention from the early nineteenth century to the present day and relates it to the changing position of women, children, and of the family. The traditional Marxist view is modified by a theory of the position of women and by relating changing welfare policies and beliefs about welfare both to the women’s movements of the past century and to the ideas and theories of the contemporary Women’s Liberation Movement. In her approach Elizabeth Wilson argues – uniquely among writers on the Welfare State – for an emphasis on the ideology of welfare.
Author |
: Mimi Abramovitz |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2000-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781583670088 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1583670084 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Under Attack, Fighting Back by : Mimi Abramovitz
Abramovitz argues that welfare reform has penalized single motherhood; exposed poor women to the risks of hunger, hopelessness, and male violence: swept them into low paid jobs, and left many former recipients unable to make ends meet.".
Author |
: Molly Ladd-Taylor |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 2022-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252054600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252054601 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mother-Work by : Molly Ladd-Taylor
Early in the twentieth century, maternal and child welfare evolved from a private family responsibility into a matter of national policy. Molly Ladd-Taylor explores both the private and public aspects of child-rearing, using the relationship between them to cast new light on the histories of motherhood, the welfare state, and women's activism in the United States. Ladd-Taylor argues that mother-work, "women's unpaid work of reproduction and caregiving," motivated women's public activism and "maternalist" ideology. Mothering experiences led women to become active in the development of public health, education, and welfare services. In turn, the advent of these services altered mothering in many ways, including the reduction of the infant mortality rate.
Author |
: Gwendolyn Mink |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2018-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501728860 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501728865 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wages of Motherhood by : Gwendolyn Mink
Entering the vigorous debate about the nature of the American welfare state, The Wages of Motherhood illuminates ways in which a "maternalist" social policy emerged from the crucible of gender and racial politics between the world wars. Gwendolyn Mink here examines the cultural dynamics of maternalist social policy, which have often been overlooked by institutional and class analyses of the welfare state. Mink maintains that the movement for welfare provisions, while resulting in important gains, reinforced existing patterns of gender and racial inequality. She explores how AngloAmerican women reformers, as they gained increasing political recognition, promoted an ideology of domesticity that became the core of maternalist social policy. Focusing on reformers such as Jane Addams, Grace Abbott, Katherine Lenroot, and Frances Perkins, Mink shows how they helped shape a social policy premised on moral character and cultural conformity rather than universal entitlement. According to Mink, commitments to a gendered and racialized ideology of virtuous citizenship led women's reform organizations in the United States to support welfare policies that were designed to uplift and regulate motherhood and thus to reform the cultural character of citizens. The upshot was a welfare agenda that linked maternity with dependency, poverty with cultural weakness, and need with moral failing. Relegating poor women and racial minorities to dependent status, maternalist policy had the effect of stengthening ideological and institutional forms of subordination. In Mink's view, the legacy of this benevolent—and invidious—policy contimies to inflect thinking about welfare reform today.
Author |
: Elizabeth Garner Masarik |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 331 |
Release |
: 2024-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820366074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820366072 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sentimental State by : Elizabeth Garner Masarik
With The Sentimental State, Elizabeth Garner Masarik shows how middle-class women, both white and Black, harnessed the nineteenth-century “culture of sentiment” to generate political action in the Progressive Era. While eighteenth-century rationalism had relied upon the development of the analytic mind as the basis for acquiring truth, nineteenth-century sentimentalism hinged upon human emotional responses and the public’s capacity to feel sympathy to establish morally based truth and build support for improving the welfare of women and children. Sentimentalism marched right alongside women’s steps into the public sphere of political action. The concerns over infant mortality and the “fall” of young women intertwined with sentimentalism to elicit public action in the formation of the American welfare state. The work of voluntary and paid female reformers during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries shaped what would become lasting collaborations between grassroots voluntary organizations and the national government. Women saw a social need, filled it, and cobbled together a network of voluntary organizations that tapped state funding and support when available. Their work provided safeguards for women and children and created a network of female-oriented programs that both aided and policed women of child-bearing age at the turn of the twentieth century. Through an examination of these reform programs, Masarik demonstrates the strong connection between nineteenth-century sentimental culture and female political action, advocating government support for infant and maternal welfare, in the twentieth century.