Welfare Warriors
Author: Premilla Nadasen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415945783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Premilla Nadasen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415945783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Premilla Nadasen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780415945790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Premilla Nadasen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1135024537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Welfare has been central to a number of significant political debates in modern America: What role should the government play in alleviating poverty? What does a government owe its citizens, and who is entitled to help? How have race and gender shaped economic opportunities and outcomes? How should Americans respond to increasing rates of single parenthood? How have poor women sought to shape their own lives and influence government policies? With a comprehensive introduction and a well-chosen collection of primary documents, Welfare in the United States chronicles the major turning points in the seventy-year history of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Illuminating policy debates, shifting demographics, institutional change, and the impact of social movements, this book serves as an essential guide to the history of the nation's most controversial welfare program.
Author: Marisa Chappell
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780812242041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on the fate of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, this comprehensive history of the thirty year war over welfare shows how stubborn allegiance to the male-headed household undermined the struggle for economic justice.
Author: Premilla Nadasen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1135024545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Welfare has been central to a number of significant political debates in modern America: What role should the government play in alleviating poverty? What does a government owe its citizens, and who is entitled to help? How have race and gender shaped economic opportunities and outcomes? How should Americans respond to increasing rates of single parenthood? How have poor women sought to shape their own lives and influence government policies? With a comprehensive introduction and a well-chosen collection of primary documents, Welfare in the United States chronicles the major turning points in the seventy-year history of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Illuminating policy debates, shifting demographics, institutional change, and the impact of social movements, this book serves as an essential guide to the history of the nation's most controversial welfare program.
Author: Sol Yurick
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1555848893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The basis for the cult-classic film The Warriors chronicles one New York City gang’s nocturnal journey through the seedy, dangerous subways and city streets of the 1960s. “Warriors, come out to play-yay!” Every gang in the city meets on a sweltering July 4 night in a Bronx park for a peace rally. The crowd of miscreants turns violent after a prominent gang leader is killed and chaos prevails over the attempt at order. The Warriors follows the Dominators making their way back to their home territory without being killed. The police are prowling the city in search of anyone involved in the mayhem. An exhilarating novel that examines New York City teenagers, left behind by society, who form identity and personal strength through their affiliation with their “family,” The Warriors “goes to the core of the heart of darkness” as it weaves together social commentary with ancient legends for a classic coming-of-age tale (Flyer). This edition includes a new introduction by the author. “It seems to me the best novel of its kind I’ve ever read, an altogether perfect achievement. I’m sure that to many it will sound like sacrilege but I have to say that I think it a better novel than Lord of the Flies.” —Warren Miller, author of The Cool World
Author: Pamela Moss
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014-06-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1782383476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers’ invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions—families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs—mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers’ bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers’ invisible wounds.
Author: Lincoln Rice
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1506494064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the US, Black children are twice as likely as white children to be removed from their parents and adopted out to strangers. The Ethics of Protection responds to this dire reality with a liberationist approach to child welfare ethics. This book reframes child welfare by centering the stories, challenges, failures, and victories of Black families.
Author: Diane Dujon
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780896085299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brings together the words of welfare mothers, activists and advocates, as well as scholars in a poignant and powerful challenge to the impoverishment of women.
Author: Lisa McGirr
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-06-02
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 1400866200
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James B. Utt that "barefooted Africans" were training in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country. Yet, in Utt's home district of Orange County, thousands of middle-class suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement that would land Ronald Reagan in the White House and redefine the spectrum of acceptable politics into the next century. Suburban Warriors introduces us to these people: women hosting coffee klatches for Barry Goldwater in their tract houses; members of anticommunist reading groups organizing against sex education; pro-life Democrats gradually drawn into conservative circles; and new arrivals finding work in defense companies and a sense of community in Orange County's mushrooming evangelical churches. We learn what motivated them and how they interpreted their political activity. Lisa McGirr shows that their movement was not one of marginal people suffering from status anxiety, but rather one formed by successful entrepreneurial types with modern lifestyles and bright futures. She describes how these suburban pioneers created new political and social philosophies anchored in a fusion of Christian fundamentalism, xenophobic nationalism, and western libertarianism. While introducing these rank-and-file activists, McGirr chronicles Orange County's rise from "nut country" to political vanguard. Through this history, she traces the evolution of the New Right from a virulent anticommunist, anti-establishment fringe to a broad national movement nourished by evangelical Protestantism. Her original contribution to the social history of politics broadens—and often upsets—our understanding of the deep and tenacious roots of popular conservatism in America.