Keeping Women and Children Last
America's War on the Poor, Revised Edition
$43.33
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 November 1998
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140276930 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140276939 |
| Author: | Ruth Sidel |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | The Penguin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 1998 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 129mm x 195mm |
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Ruth Sidel
Ruth Sidel, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College, is author of many books including “Keeping Women and Children Last: America’s War on the Poor “(revised edition, 1998) and “On Her Own: Growing Up in the Shadow of the American Dream” (1990).
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