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Welfare reform and sexual regulation

Title

Welfare reform and sexual regulation / Anna Marie Smith.

Author

Smith, Anna Marie.

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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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xi, 297 p.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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