Scholarship and activism: The case of welfare justice

Feminist Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-31

  Boris, Eileen ^a  

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EID: 0032018283     PISSN: 00463663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3178615     Document Type: Review

References (10)

1. In 1962, amendments to the Social Security Act changed Aid to Dependent Children, the original name of the program, to AFDC.
2. Moderating the session was Robin D.G. Kelley. The American Historical Association calls for gender-integrated sessions; in this case, our man was no token because Kelley combines activism and scholarship in his own right.
3. For the Coordinating Council for Women in History, see Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri, eds., Voices of Women Historians: The Personal, the Political, the Professional (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming).
4. Randy Albelda, "Introduction: The Welfare Reform Debate You Wish Would Happen," Feminist Economics 1 (summer 1995): 81. See the entire debate, 81-119.
5. Barbara Bergmann and Heidi Hartmann, "A Welfare Reform Based on Help for Working Parents," Feminist Economics 1 (summer 1995): 85-89.
6. For somewhat different remedies among legal feminists who value caregiving, see Martha Albertson Fineman, The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family, and Other Twentieth-Century Tragedies (New York: Routledge, 1995); and Joan Williams, Deconstructing Gender (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
7. For somewhat different remedies among legal feminists who value caregiving, see Martha Albertson Fineman, The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family, and Other Twentieth-Century Tragedies (New York: Routledge, 1995); and Joan Williams, Deconstructing Gender (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
8. Michel and I, like Mink, have written critically on the Progressive Era women reformers who sought social policy in the name of motherhood. See Gwendolyn Mink, The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942 (New York: Cornell University Press, 1995); Sonya Michel, "The Limits of Maternalism: Policies toward American Wage-Earning Mothers during the Progressive Era," in Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States, ed. Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (New York: Routledge, 1993), 277-320; Eileen Boris, Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
9. Michel and I, like Mink, have written critically on the Progressive Era women reformers who sought social policy in the name of motherhood. See Gwendolyn Mink, The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942 (New York: Cornell University Press, 1995); Sonya Michel, "The Limits of Maternalism: Policies toward American Wage-Earning Mothers during the Progressive Era," in Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States, ed. Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (New York: Routledge, 1993), 277-320; Eileen Boris, Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
10. Michel and I, like Mink, have written critically on the Progressive Era women reformers who sought social policy in the name of motherhood. See Gwendolyn Mink, The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942 (New York: Cornell University Press, 1995); Sonya Michel, "The Limits of Maternalism: Policies toward American Wage-Earning Mothers during the Progressive Era," in Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States, ed. Seth Koven and Sonya Michel (New York: Routledge, 1993), 277-320; Eileen Boris, Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).