Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: How to Read This Book
1. The New Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State - Linda Gordon
2. The Gender Basis of American Social Policy - Virginia Sapiro
3. The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780- 1920 - Paula Baker
4. The Lady and the Tramp: Gender, Race, and the Origins of the American Welfare State - Gwendolyn Mink
5. The Origins of the Two-Channel Welfare State: Workmen's Compensation and Mothers' Aid -Barbara J. Nelson
6. Representations of Gender: Policies to "Protect" Women Workers and Infants in France and the United States before 1914 - Jane Jenson
7. Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control - Linda Gordon
8. Struggle Over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late-Capitalist Political Culture - Nancy Fraser
9. The Dialectic of Rights and Politics: Perspectives from the Women's Movement - Elizabeth M. Schneider
10. Ideology and the State: Women, Power, and the Welfare State - Frances Fox Piven
11. Welfare Is Not/or Women: Why the War on Poverty Cannot Conquer the Feminization of Poverty - Diana Pearce
12. Black Women and AFDC: Making Entitlement Out of Necessity - Teresa L. Amott
Index