Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective

by Felicia Ann Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink

In Ensuring Poverty, Felicia Kornbluh and Gwendolyn Mink assess the gendered history of welfare reform. They foreground arguments advanced by feminists for a welfare policy that would respect single mothers' rights while advancing their opportunities and assuring economic security for their families. Kornbluh and Mink consider welfare policy in the broad intersectional context of gender, race, poverty, and inequality. They argue that the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812250680
• ISBN13: 9780812250688
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"