The feminization of poverty is increasingly recognized as a global phenomenon, affecting women not only in third world countries but also in the West. Taking globalization as its starting point, Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking nations that have implemented welfare restructuring: the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. This restructuring is analyzed in relation to the emergence of neoliberalism, which valorizes the free market, individualism, and a circumscribed role for the state.
Contributors to Western Welfare in Decline creatively combine theoretical and empirical analysis, emphasizing the economic and social goals of welfare reforms and the discourses of labor, gendered subjectivity, and the separation of public and private spheres. They document how the neoliberal project of welfare reform interacts with local cultures to create both similar and divergent new cultural formations and identify opportunities for asserting the social rights of poor single mothers who are being denied these rights at the level of the nation-state.
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Catherine Kingfisher is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Lethbridge. She is author of Women in the American Welfare Trap, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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The 1992 World Bank Report argued that "Women must not be regarded as mere recipients of public support. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neoliberal culture, welfare state restructuring, sole mothers, tino rangatiratanga, preliminary grammar, neoliberal governance, social provisioning, lone motherhood, poor single mothers, liberal progressivism, lone mothers, global feminization, postwar welfare state, neoliberal hegemony, neoliberal state, neoliberal discourses, neoliberal project, enterprise bargaining, western welfare states Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, United States, New Deal, Nederveen Pieterse, Third World, Ruth Lister, Cold War, Green Paper, Treaty of Waitangi, Australian Labour Party, Charles Murray, National Coalition, United Nations, Universal Caregiver, Waitangi Tribunal, Child Support Act New!
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neoliberal culture, welfare state restructuring, sole mothers, tino rangatiratanga, preliminary grammar, neoliberal governance, social provisioning, lone motherhood, poor single mothers, liberal progressivism, lone mothers, global feminization, postwar welfare state, neoliberal hegemony, neoliberal state, neoliberal discourses, neoliberal project, enterprise bargaining, western welfare states Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, United States, New Deal, Nederveen Pieterse, Third World, Ruth Lister, Cold War, Green Paper, Treaty of Waitangi, Australian Labour Party, Charles Murray, National Coalition, United Nations, Universal Caregiver, Waitangi Tribunal, Child Support Act New!
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- Good Enough Mothering?: Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood by Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Social Policy (Polity Short Introductions) by Hartley Dean in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women in the American Welfare Trap by Catherine Kingfisher in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction by Faye D. Ginsburg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Family: Is It Just Another Lifestyle Choice? (Choice in Welfare Series) on page 117, and Back Matter
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