Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare

Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare

Author
Linda Gordon
Publication Year

"History of how women have been shut out of entitlement programs and relegated to means-tested programs such as welfare: and how African American and Mexican American single mothers have been excluded from even these minimal benefits through race-based 'employable mother' rules."

Recommended by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and author of Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America.