Welfare's end
By: Gwendolyn Mink.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Cornell paperbacks
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Unmarried mothers -- Government policy -- United States; Poor women -- Government policy -- United States; Welfare recipients -- United States; Public welfare -- United States; Public welfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Social policy
Description: With her analysis of the thirty-year campaign to reform and ultimately to end welfare, Gwendolyn Mink levels a searing indictment of anti-welfare politicians' assault on poor mothers. Mink explores how and why we should cure the unique inequality of poor single mothers by reorienting the emphasis of welfare policy away from regulating mothers to rewarding the work they do. Showing how welfare reform harms women, Mink invites the design of policies to promote gender justice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-189) and index.