Dependency or Mutuality: A Feminist Perspective on Dilemmas of Welfare Policy

Ackelsberg, Martha A.

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“…Macdonald 1990, while welcoming poststructuralism's ability to break up the homogenous category 'woman', registered its near silence on the question of how to construct collective struggle for social change. Williams 1983, Taub and Williams 1986, Scott 1997, Brown 1995, and Ackelsberg 1994 have been among those who have sought to transcend the equality/difference dichotomy in a manner pre gured in signi cant ways by Union WAGE. 20 Squires 1997, p. 136.…”

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Equalibertarian Marxism and the Politics of Social Movements

Johnson¹

2003

Hist Mater

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Equalibertarian Marxism and the Politics of Social Movements

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2003

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Broadening the Study of Women's Participation

Ackelsberg¹

2003

Women and American Politics

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This chapter reviews existing research on women's political participation outside electoral politics and traditional forms of participation. Ackelsberg suggests an agenda for future research that includes a focus on: the mobilization of women activists, the changes in consciousness that activism brings, the effectiveness of various strategies employed by activists, and the possible contributions of activism to resolving theoretical dilemmas.

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`Welfare Dependence': The Power of a Concept

Smiley¹

2001

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While the concept of welfare dependence as now formulated is logically muddled, it is very powerful in shaping our view of both the welfare state in general and the requirements of welfare reform in particular, as well as in reinforcing a variety of norms, beliefs, and interests that are harmful to both welfare recipients and the community at large. But we are not generally aware of these aspects of our concept of dependence as so formulated. Hence, we continue to use the concept as so formulated in practice and, in doing so, bring about a series of negative - and in many cases unintended - consequences, including the maintenance of a set of artificial class distinctions between dependents, i.e. welfare recipients, and the rest of us, the shutting down of serious debate about welfare reform, and the reinforcement of anti-statist values that themselves preclude the development of a democratic mode of collective protection. I set out below to bring these consequences to our attention and to show how they follow from our prevailing concept of welfare dependence. I do so by exploring the concept of welfare dependence as now formulated in depth with respect to both form and content.

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Dependency or Mutuality: A Feminist Perspective on Dilemmas of Welfare Policy

Cited by 3 publications

References 14 publications

Equalibertarian Marxism and the Politics of Social Movements

Equalibertarian Marxism and the Politics of Social Movements

Broadening the Study of Women's Participation

`Welfare Dependence': The Power of a Concept

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