Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the PresentPraised widely as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, as well as political advocacy, Regulating the Lives of Women tells the story of social welfare from women's perspectives. The critical new insights in this new edition of Regulating the Lives of Women will appeal to policymakers, activists, academics, and general readers interested in social welfare, sociology, women's labor, and African-American Studies. |
Contents
The Colonial Family Ethic | 45 |
Notes | 68 |
Women and the Poor Laws in Colonial America | 75 |
A Womans Place is in the Home | 107 |
Poor Women and Progressivism | 197 |
The Great Depression and the Social Security | 215 |
Old Age Insurance | 231 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
AFDC almshouse America became benefits black women Boston breadwinner capital capitalist century charities child cial citing City colonial poor laws Committee Congress Contract with America divorced domestic earnings Economic Security eligibility employed employers federal female feminism feminists free black homemakers household husband Ibid income indentured indentured servants industrial family ethic institutions jobless labor force labor market large numbers liberal living male marriage married women Marxist ment National Old Age Insurance outdoor relief parents patriarchal paupers Pension percent persons political poor laws poor women poverty production protection received recipients Report reproductive responsibility settlement laws sexual single mothers slave social insurance Social Security Act social welfare socialist feminism society tion town U.S. Congress undeserving unemployed Unemployment Insurance University Press wages welfare reform white women widows wives woman women of color women workers women's roles workfare York