Anna Marie Smith

Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation

Buch

Inspired by the political interventions of feminist women of color and Foucauldian social theory, Anna Marie Smith explores the scope and structure of the child support enforcement, family cap, marriage promotion, and abstinence education measures that are embedded within contemporary United States welfare policy. Presenting original legal research and drawing from historical sources, social theory, and normative frameworks, the author argues that these measures violate the rights of poor mothers. Drawing on several historical precedents the author shows that welfare policy has consistently constructed the sexual conduct of the racialized poo… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-521-82095-0
EAN: 9780521820950
Produktnummer: 14075064
Verlag: Cambridge
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 310 S.
Masse: H23.9 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.3 cm 558 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 558

Über den Autor

Anna Marie Smith is an associate professor of government at Cornell University. She is the author of New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain, 1968-1990 (Cambridge, 1994), and Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary (1998). She has also written numerous articles published in New Formations, Feminist Review, Diacritics, Radical Philosophy, Social Text, Constellations, and Michigan Journal of Gender and Law, and she is the author of chapters published in numerous cultural studies and social and political theory anthologies.