The Feminization of Poverty
Subtitle: Only in America? (Contributions in Women's Studies, No. 117)
Contributors: Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg (Editor); Eleanor Kremen (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Published: November 9, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780275936914
Subjects: Gender studies; Poverty; Social welfare & social services; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Canada; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Japan; Poland; Sweden; USA; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Cross-cultural studies; Poor women; United States; Women heads of households
First sentence: Writing more than a century and a half ago, Alexis de Tocqueville remarked on the relative equality that he had witnessed in the world's first modern democracy: "Men are there seen on a greater equality in point of fortune and intellect, or in other words, more equal in their strength, than in any other country of the world, or in any age of which history has preserved the remembrance" (1945, Vol. I, p. 55).