pt. 1. Historical perspectives on contemporary welfare politics. Dependency and choice: the two faces of Eve / Rickie Solinger ; When work is slavery / Eileen Boris ; From maximum feasible participation to disenfranchisement / Nancy A. Naples
pt. 2. Class, race, and gender in the new welfare regime. Welfare and work / Frances Fox Piven ; Asian immigrant communities and the racial politics of welfare reform / Lynn H. Fujiwara ; Women, welfare, and domestic violence / Demie Kurz ; Welfare's ban on poor motherhood / Dorothy Roberts
pt. 3. Toward a new welfare politics? Aren't poor single mothers women? feminists, welfare reform, and welfare justice / Gwendolyn Mink ; Welfare, dependency, and a public ethic of care / Eva Feder Kittay ; Toward a framework for understanding activism among poor and working-class women in twentieth-century America / Mimi Abramovitz.
