Keeping Women and Children Last: America's War on the Poor, Revised Edition

by Ruth Sidel

Book Overview

In Keeping Women and Children Last, Ruth Sidel shows how America, in its search for a post-Cold War enemy, has turned inward to target single mothers on welfare, and how politicians have scapegoated and stigmatized female-headed families both as a method of social control and to divert attention from the severe problems that Americans face. She reveals the real victims of poverty--the millions of children who suffer from societal neglect,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140276939
• ISBN13: 9780140276930
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher