Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare - Tapa blanda

Gordon, Linda

 
9780674669826: Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare
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ISBN 10: 0674669827 ISBN 13: 9780674669826
Editorial: Harvard University Press, 1998

Sinopsis

With three-fourths of all poor families headed by women and about 54 percent of single-mother families living below the poverty line, a rethinking of the fundamental assumptions of our much-reviled welfare program is clearly necessary. Here, Linda Gordon unearths the tangled roots of AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children). Competing visions of how and to whom public aid should be distributed were advanced by male bureaucrats, black women's organizations, and white progressive feminists. From their policy debates emerged a two-track system of public aid, in which single mothers got highly stigmatized "welfare" while other groups, such as the aged and the unemployed, received "entitlements."

Gordon strips today's welfare debates of decades of irrelevant and irrational accretion, revealing that what appeared progressive in the 1930s is antiquated in the 1990s. She shows that only by shedding false assumptions, and rethinking the nature of poverty, can we advance a truly effective welfare reform.

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Críticas

Illuminating...skillfully written and well-documented. -- Frank F. Furstenberg "New York Times Book Review" An important original contribution and one that offers provocative insights into the current welfare reform debate. -- Deborah A. Stone "New Republic" Particularly timely and instructive...thoroughly documented, balanced and often absorbing...Perhaps it will help us to take another look at the current thinking about both the needs and the rights of the poor before harsh, punitive policies critically injure children and their families for generations to come. -- Ruth Sidel "Nation"

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With three-fourths of all poor families headed by women and about 54 percent of single-mother families living below the poverty line, a rethinking of the fundamental assumptions of our much-reviled welfare program is clearly necessary. Here, Linda Gordon unearths the tangled roots of AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children). Competing visions of how and to whom public aid should be distributed were advanced by male bureaucrats, black women's organizations, and white progressive feminists. From their policy debates emerged a two-track system of public aid, in which single mothers got highly stigmatized welfare while other groups, such as the aged and the unemployed, received entitlements. Gordon strips today's welfare debates of decades of irrelevant and irrational accretion, revealing that what appeared progressive in the 1930s is antiquated in the 1990s. She shows that only by shedding false assumptions, and rethinking the nature of poverty, can we advance a truly effective welfare reform.

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Editorial
Harvard University Press
Año de publicación
1998
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ISBN 10 
0674669827
ISBN 13 
9780674669826
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Número de páginas
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