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Keeping Women and Children Last by Ruth Sidel

Keeping Women and Children Last

America's War on the Poor, Revised Edition

By Ruth Sidel

By Ruth Sidel

By Ruth Sidel

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    About Keeping Women and Children Last

    In Keeping Women and Children Last, Ruth Sidel shows how America, in its search for a post-Cold War enemy, has turned inward to target single mothers on welfare, and how politicians have scapegoated and stigmatized female-headed families both as a method of social control and to divert attention from the severe problems that Americans face. She reveals the real victims of poverty–the millions of children who suffer from societal neglect, inferior education, inadequate health care, hunger, and homelessness. In this new edition, focusing on the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Sidel reevaluates our social policy, assessing the impact of the “end of welfare as we know it” on America’s poor, especially its women and children.

    About Keeping Women and Children Last

    In Keeping Women and Children Last, Ruth Sidel shows how America, in its search for a post-Cold War enemy, has turned inward to target single mothers on welfare, and how politicians have scapegoated and stigmatized female-headed families both as a method of social control and to divert attention from the severe problems that Americans face. She reveals the real victims of poverty–the millions of children who suffer from societal neglect, inferior education, inadequate health care, hunger, and homelessness. In this new edition, focusing on the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Sidel reevaluates our social policy, assessing the impact of the “end of welfare as we know it” on America’s poor, especially its women and children.

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    Product Details

    Category: 20th Century U.S. History

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Nov 01, 1998 | 288 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140276930

    Category: 20th Century U.S. History

    Ebook | $4.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Nov 01, 1998 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9781101522813

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    Table Of Contents

    Keeping Women and Children Last – Ruth Sidel Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    Chapter 1: The Enemy Within
    Chapter 2: The Assault on the Female-Headed Family
    Chapter 3: Who Are the Poor?
    Chapter 4: Targeting Welfare Recipients
    Chapter 5: Teenage Mothers: Casualties of a Limited Future
    Chapter 6: Poor Children: The Walking Wounded
    Chapter 7: A Return to Caring
    Epilogue: Abandoning the Poor
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index

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