Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

by Miriam Abramovitz and Mimi Abramovitz

Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into welfare state rules and regulations define women as "deserving" or "undeserving" of aid depending on their race, class, gender,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415785502
• ISBN13: 9780415785501
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"