num_pages: 428
description: This important book looks at the changes in AFDC, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance, and welfare "reform." This new edition reveals how welfare policy scapegoats women more than ever to justify widespread retrenchment and to divert the public's attention from the real causes of the nation's mounting economic woes.
language: English
title: Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
titlecomplete: Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (Revised Edition)
genres: Nonfiction, Feminism, Social Work
ratings_count: 51
publisher: South End Press