Inspired by the political interventions of feminist women of
color and Foucauldian social theory, Anna Marie Smith explores the
scope and structure of the child support enforcement, family cap,
marriage promotion, and abstinence education measures that are
embedded within contemporary United States welfare policy.
Presenting original legal research and drawing from historical
sources, social theory, and normative frameworks, the author argues
that these measures violate the rights of poor mothers. Drawing on
several historical precedents the author shows that welfare policy
has consistently constructed the sexual conduct of the racialized
poor mother as one of its primary disciplinary targets. The book
concludes with a vigorous and detailed critique of Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton''s support for welfare reform law and an outline of a
progressive feminist approach to poverty policy.
目錄:
Introduction
1. From paternafare to marriage promotion: sexual regulation and
welfare reform
2. Biopower and sexual regulation
3. Post-Foucauldian sexual regulation theory
4. The ideological construction of paternafare
5. Paternafare law today
6. Welfare reform, reproductive heterosexuality, and marriage
7. The normative assessment of paternafare: an ideal type
analysis
8. Feminist visions
Appendices
Index