Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

This new edition of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present traces how the welfare state regulated the lives of women from colonial times to the present. It is an essential resource for students of social work, sociology, political science, public policy, and gender studies.

Mimi Abramovitz is Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy at the Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA. She writes extensively about women, welfare, poverty and activism. From welfare caseworker to welfare rights organizer to welfare state scholar, Abramovitz has galvanized a generation of students explaining how public policy shapes the lives of white women and women of color and how they fight back.