Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation
Autor Anna Marie Smithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 iul 2007
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780521527842
ISBN-10: 0521527848
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 12 tables
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0521527848
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 12 tables
Dimensiuni: 155 x 233 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Introduction; 1. From paternafare to marriage promotion: sexual regulation and welfare reform; 2. Biopower and sexual regulation; 3. Post-Foucauldian sexual regulation theory; 4. The ideological construction of paternafare; 5. Paternafare law today; 6. Welfare reform, reproductive heterosexuality, and marriage; 7. The normative assessment of paternafare: an ideal type analysis; 8. Feminist visions; Appendices; Index.
Recenzii
“Smith’s book is grand in scope. Not only does it explore the nuances of paternafare policy and ideology, it also engages social theory and offers suggestions for future policy changes. Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation presents a challenge, then, to welfare reformers and feminists alike, particularly those who may have supported the reform or see elements of a feminist politics within it. Smith reminds us that while it is not enough for poverty activists to focus on welfare’s failure to end poverty without attending to issues of sexual regulation, it is also not enough for feminists to fight for reproductive rights without attending to issues of poverty.”
Karen Zivi, University of Richmond, Politics and Gender
“[Smith] admirably specifies the gendered, racial, and hetero-normative content of a eugenic project that in important ways suspends democratic norms and the law. Her book is a truly valuable contribution to theorizing about democracy and its limits, and about the ways in which gender, race, class, and (hetero-normative) sexuality intersect with democratic citizenship and state power.”
Kathleen R. Arnold, University of Texas, Perspectives on Politics
"Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation is a compelling work; it is likely to become the gold standard in discussions of contemporary welfare policy. Deeply grounded in theory, it also manages to move pragmatic discussion about welfare policy forward....This book is a call for social justice that commands attention and respect."
-Alice Hearst, Department of Government, Smith College, Law and Politics Book Review
"Theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich, and politically astute, Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation shifts our attention from workfare to ‘paternafare,’ the forcing of poor women to identify the birth father of their children in order to receive public assistance and poor men to reimburse the state for such payments. Smith’s discussion of sexual regulation and the bio-power apparatus surrounding it represents a major conceptual breakthrough that makers, as well as interpreters, of public policy can not afford to ignore. Her call for the end of marriage and the development of a caregiver grant boldly challenges the terms of welfare reform as we know it."
-Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
"In this incisive and far-reaching analysis, Anna Marie Smith excavates the labyrinth of welfare regulation to unearth its hidden punishments and rights violations and to puncture the mythology of compassion that has accompanied welfare ‘reform.’ Smith’s indictment of ‘reform’ and its supporters is powerfully argued and convincing. And so is her vision for change. This is a major contribution to feminist theory and democratic politics, and essential reading for all who are working to rebuild a genuinely progressive agenda."
-Alice O’Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Karen Zivi, University of Richmond, Politics and Gender
“[Smith] admirably specifies the gendered, racial, and hetero-normative content of a eugenic project that in important ways suspends democratic norms and the law. Her book is a truly valuable contribution to theorizing about democracy and its limits, and about the ways in which gender, race, class, and (hetero-normative) sexuality intersect with democratic citizenship and state power.”
Kathleen R. Arnold, University of Texas, Perspectives on Politics
"Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation is a compelling work; it is likely to become the gold standard in discussions of contemporary welfare policy. Deeply grounded in theory, it also manages to move pragmatic discussion about welfare policy forward....This book is a call for social justice that commands attention and respect."
-Alice Hearst, Department of Government, Smith College, Law and Politics Book Review
"Theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich, and politically astute, Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation shifts our attention from workfare to ‘paternafare,’ the forcing of poor women to identify the birth father of their children in order to receive public assistance and poor men to reimburse the state for such payments. Smith’s discussion of sexual regulation and the bio-power apparatus surrounding it represents a major conceptual breakthrough that makers, as well as interpreters, of public policy can not afford to ignore. Her call for the end of marriage and the development of a caregiver grant boldly challenges the terms of welfare reform as we know it."
-Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
"In this incisive and far-reaching analysis, Anna Marie Smith excavates the labyrinth of welfare regulation to unearth its hidden punishments and rights violations and to puncture the mythology of compassion that has accompanied welfare ‘reform.’ Smith’s indictment of ‘reform’ and its supporters is powerfully argued and convincing. And so is her vision for change. This is a major contribution to feminist theory and democratic politics, and essential reading for all who are working to rebuild a genuinely progressive agenda."
-Alice O’Connor, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Descriere
This book considers the 1996-2006 welfare laws in the United States from a feminist perspective.