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Regulating the Lives of Women provides a critical examination of social welfare policy and its profound impact on women’s lives across American history. From colonial times through the modern era, Mimi Abramovitz traces how welfare systems have been designed to regulate women’s behavior, enforce gender roles, and control their economic and social autonomy.
The book explores how policies have shifted in response to economic needs and social movements, yet consistently reinforced patriarchal structures. Abramovitz analyzes various welfare programs and their gendered implications, demonstrating how social policy has been used as a tool to manage women’s labor, sexuality, and family structures. This groundbreaking work connects historical welfare practices to contemporary policy debates and challenges readers to reconsider the role of government in shaping women’s lives and opportunities.
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