the sexual politics of welfare policy
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Johnson, Cathy Marie
- Creator
- Duerst-Lahti, Georgia
- Creator
- Norton, Noelle H.
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- VS 1N 2007
- Thesaurus
- sociale zekerheid, alimentatie, politiek, overheidsbeleid, gender, macht, rolgedrag, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The authors examine the creation of gender through the making of welfare policy in the United States. They begin the book with a description of the general patterns of gender, or gender paradigms, that result from policymaking. They describe the gender patterns in dispute and explain how they connect to specific policies designed to reward gendered behavior and punish unwanted behavior. They probe the ideological belief systems of policy makers. They trace the unfolding of governing ideologies and gender paradigms in the history of sexual politics in welfare policy. They detail how welfare reform upended the normative standards for good mothering and 'made masculine mothers' by vanquishing mother-work and declaring paid employment to be the proper gender role for mothers. They analyze the role of fathers. In the last chapters they show that the presented ideological framework has empirical grounding and give examples of policy making and law making in states, congress, and senate.