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She is the author of the now classic history of birth control in America, Woman's Body, Woman's Right, and of Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, winner of the Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women's history. Linda Gordon is Professor of History at New York Univer

Title	:	Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare 1890-1935
Author	:	Linda Gordon
Rating	:	4.84 (526 Votes)
Asin	:	0674669827
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	433Pages
Publish Date	:	2016-10-22
Language	:	English

She is the author of the now classic history of birth control in America, Woman's Body, Woman's Right, and of Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, winner of the Joan Kelly Prize for the best book in women's history. Linda Gordon is Professor of History at New York University.

With three-fourths of all poor families headed by women and about 54 percent of single-mother families living below the poverty line, a rethinking of the fundamental assumptions of our much-reviled welfare program is clearly necessary. Here, Linda Gordon unearths the tangled roots of AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children). From their policy debates emerged a two-track system of public aid, in which single mothers got highly stigmatized "welfare" while other groups, such as the aged and the unemployed, received "entitlements." Gordon strips today's welfare debates of decades of irrelevant and irrational accretion, revealing that what appeared progressive in the 1930s is antiquated in the 1990s. She shows that only by shedding false assumptions, and rethinking the nature of poverty, can we advance a truly effective welfare reform.. Competing vision

(Deborah A. (Ruth Sidel Nation) . (Frank F. Stone New Republic)Illuminatingskillfully written and well-documented. An important original contribution and one that offers provocative insights into the current welfare reform debate. Furstenberg New York Times Book Review)Particularly timely and instructivethoroughly documented, balanced and often absorbingPerhaps it will help us to take another look at the current thinking about both the needs and the rights of the poor before harsh, punitive policies critically injure children and their families for generations to come

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