Women, the State, and Welfare

Contents

Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Contributors Xl Introduction: How to Read This Book 3 1. The New Feminist Scholarship on the Welfare State 9 Linda Gordon 2. The Gender Basis of American Social Policy 36 Virginia Sapiro 3. The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780- 1920 55 Paula Baker 4. The Lady and the Tramp: Gender, Race, and the Origins of the American Welfare State 92 Gwendolyn Mink 5. The Origins of the Two-Channel Welfare State: Workmen's Compensation and Mothers' Aid 123 Barbara J. Nelson 6. Representations of Gender: Policies to "Protect" Women Workers and Infants in France and the United States before 1914 152 Jane Jenson 7. Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control 178 Linda Gordon 8. Struggle Over Needs: Outline of a Socialist-Feminist Critical Theory of Late-Capitalist Political Culture 199 Nancy Fraser v vi CONTENTS 9. The Dialectic of Rights and Politics: Perspectives from the Women's Movement 226 Elizabeth M. Schneider 10. Ideology and the State: Women, Power, and the Welfare State 250 Frances Fox Piven 11. Welfare Is Not/or Women: Why the War on Poverty Cannot Conquer the Feminization of Poverty 265 Diana Pearce 12. Black Women and AFDC: Making Entitlement Out of Necessity 280 Teresa L. Amott Index 301 ...