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Women, Work, Welfare: A Rhetorical History of Images of Poor Women in Welfare Policy Debates
- Rhetoric & Public Affairs
- Michigan State University Press
- Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 2003
- pp. 285-312
- 10.1353/rap.2003.0041
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This article examines images of poor women that circulated in welfare policy debates from the Progressive Era through the late 1960s. Although competing demands for work and caregiving informed welfare policy debates throughout this period, policymakers' views of poor single mothers shifted principally from imagining these women as domestic caregivers to imagining them as paid workers.