Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective

Synopsis

Legislating The Personal Responsibility Of Poor Mothers -- Welfare (reform) As We Knew It -- Change They Believed In -- The New Democratic War On Welfare -- Welfare Ends -- Rethinking Tanf As If Mothers Matter -- Patriarchal Consensus : Gender And Poverty Under Bush And Obama -- Conclusion. Toward Ending The Vulnerabilities Of Single Mothers In Poverty. Appendix. Women's Committee Of 100/project 2002, An Immodest Proposal : Rewarding Women's Work To End Poverty. Felicia Kornbluh And Gwendolyn Mink. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.