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Pages: 299
Authors: Joanne L. Goodwin
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The first study to explore the origins of welfare in the context of local politics, this book examines the first public welfare policy created specifically for
Race and the Politics of Welfare Reform
Language: en
Pages: 391
Authors: Sanford F. Schram
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-10 - Publisher: University of Michigan Press

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It's hard to imagine discussing welfare policy without discussing race, yet all too often this uncomfortable factor is avoided or simply ignored. Sometimes the
How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Laura Briggs
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-14 - Publisher: University of California Press

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Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current
The Politics of Disgust
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Ange-Marie Hancock
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-12 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Hancock argues that beliefs about poor African American mothers were the foundation for the contentious 1996 welfare reform debate that effectively 'ended welfa
Creating Gender
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Cathy Marie Johnson
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher:

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Seldom do we notice, let alone explicitly acknowledge, that public policies set distinct parameters for gender. But as Creating Gender compellingly demonstrates