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Women, Welfare and the Politics of Need Interpretation:
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The authors argue that social-welfare struggles should become more central for feminists and expose the system's underlying gender norms and show how administrative practices preemptively define women's needs, and then situate these state practices in a larger terrain of struggle over the interpretation of social needs where feminists can intervene.Abstract:
I argue that social-welfare struggles should become more central for feminists. To clarify these, I offer an analysis of the U.S. welfare system. I expose the system's underlying gender norms and show how administrative practices preemptively define women's needs. I then situate these state practices in a larger terrain of struggle over the interpretation of social needs where feminists can intervene.read more
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A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State
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The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke
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Social Assistance in Oecd Countries
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All our kin : strategies for survival in a Black community
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Political Response to Capitalist Crisis: Neo-Marxist Theories of the State and the Case of the New Deal:
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The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke
Robert K. Neary,C. B. Macpherson +1 more
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Theorie des Kommunikativen Handelns
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Who cares for the family
TL;DR: The authors examined the assumptions concerning the division of unpaid labour within the family whereby women care for the young, the sick and the old and for able-bodied adult men (their husbands).