Wives Without Husbands
Wives Without Husbands

Author: Anna R. Igra

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0807830704

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Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute "deadbeat dads," Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make "runaway husbands" support their families. Anna

Poor Women and Their Families
Poor Women and Their Families

Author: Beverly Ann Stadum

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780791407516

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This book brings to life early-century counterparts of urban women identified today as victims of the "feminization of poverty" and recipients of aid from assistance programs. With new details and original interpretations, this book moves beyond earlier studies that focus only on female employment or family life of this generation. It shows what poor women tried to do in the midst of multiple roles. The book integrates themes of child rearing and homemaking with those of women's relations to men, their reliance on female kin, and their involvement in the neighborhood, in employment, and with city agencies and institutions.

City of Courts
City of Courts

Author: Michael Willrich

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-03-17

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780521794039

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This 2003 book looks at contesting concepts of crime, and social justice in nineteenth-century industrial America.