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Inspired by the political interventions of feminist women of color and Foucauldian social theory, Anna Marie Smith explores the scope and structure of the child support enforcement, family cap, marriage promotion, and abstinence education measures that are embedded within contemporary United States...

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Main Author: Smith, Anna Marie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Since 1993
Public welfare > United States.
Welfare recipients > Government policy > United States.
Poor women > Government policy > United States.
Poor families > Government policy > United States.
Poor African Americans > Government policy.
Neoliberalism > United States.
Sex and law > United States.
Feminist theory.
United States > Social policy > 1993-
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • From paternafare to marriage promotion : sexual regulation and welfare reform
  • The ideological construction of paternafare
  • Comparing paternafare and the caregiver's entitlement
  • Welfare reform, reproductive heterosexuality, and marriage
  • From enslaved "broodmare" to "welfare queen" : patriarchal and white supremacist constructions of the Black woman
  • Welfare reform and the changing logic of governance
  • Welfare policy today : neo-liberal regulation of the poor or neo-eugenics?
  • Welfare reform and feminist politics
  • Appendix 1: Gender, race, and the TANF population
  • Appendix 2: Family structure and poverty
  • Appendix 3: Child support enforcement allocations in a neo-liberal fiscal environment
  • Appendix 4: The "swarming" of paternafare
  • Appendix 5: Race, ethnicity, and the family cap.

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