...Alice Kessler-Harris Copyright © 1993 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1993 THE PAST IN PRINT Women and Welfare: Public Interventions in Private Lives Alice Kessler-Harris Robyn Muncy, Creating a Female...

...Seth Koven; Sonya Michel Copyright © January 1989 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1989 REPORT Gender and the Origins of the Welfare State Seth Koven and Sonya Michel How do gender relations...

...Susan Pedersen Copyright © January 1989 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1989 The Failure of Feminism in the Making of the British Welfare State Susan Pedersen At last we have done...

... scrutiny. How foolish the sanitized and sentimen talized version will then seem. Bernadine Dohis a child advocate in the areas of juvenile justice and child welfare in Chicago. She was a national officer of Students for a Democratic Society, was on the FBI’s ten most wanted list...

... Social Security Act. The essay traces a young Epstein’s 1921–22 journey to Russia to study the Soviet government’s radical experiments in social welfare policy. Although Epstein was disillusioned with the Soviet system on the whole, his experiences in Soviet Russia informed his later idea of “social...

... as it intersects with social histories in the global South, thus critiquing Eurocentric epistemologies of aging. Pat Thane is a social historian interested in old age in relation to gender, labor, inequality, and welfare states, as well as the long arc of the meaning of old age in the West. Copyright © 2021...

...Gabriel Winant Abstract This article uses the politics of old age to help explain the moral conservatism of the American welfare state. It argues that the onset of Fordism caused both uneven economic displacement of old workers and broader anxiety among social reformers about dependency...

..., community welfare, and politics, including the creation of Panama’s largest teacher’s association and leadership of a pro–working people’s party, both women challenged sexism and looked to education in and outside the classroom as a vital force of transformation. Their work placed them at odds with a state...

..., unhoused Philadelphians taking over a luxury apartment building for a live-in, Come as You Are posits taking over and living-in as practices of refusal of the state care offered through social workers, the housing authority, welfare agencies, and the police. Bambara’s cinematic work points to Black...

... further to the margins of society, and making it difficult for sex workers to access health and welfare services. They claim that removing the threat of imminent arrest and caging would improve the material conditions under which sex workers live. But South Africa is a nation that struggles with income...

..., gender, and sexuality emblematized by the rise of identity-based neighborhood politics throughout the postwar period, and how these politics interface with the reterritorialization of the welfare state and the advent of community policing. The article historicizes several Stonewall-era gay organizations...

... of openness movements. It draws on a surge of recent scholarly work on child adoption to explore connections between race, child welfare, women's rights, and transnationalism. It also raises the question of child adoption as a human rights issue by considering together activist trends in domestic...

... from the monopoly powers unique to the sports business but also from policy makers' increasing embrace of unconditional corporate welfare for firms throughout the economy. In addition, the article reveals the involvement of the sports business in expanded efforts within corporate America to use...

... and mining authorities expanded access to the game through new postwar welfare schemes intended to “detribalize” Africans and control them more effectively, black miners on the Copperbelt, one of colonial Africa's richest industrial areas, had already found ways to make British football their own. Self...

... REVIEW The maturity of feminist historiography is also evidenced by its capacity to address two major issues of twentieth-century history: Nazi rule and the rise of the welfare state. The study of women under the Third Reich bears on familiar, if still unresolved, issues- namely...

... and that the competitive market was the best means for maximizing liberty. Left liberals have, since roughly the mid-nineteenth century, argued both that markets left to their own devices can threaten liberty and that the state can serve to sustain and extend it. One can argue from liberal premises to welfare...

.... Cambridge: Harvard/Belknap, 1992. $34.95. In the development of welfare states in the U.S. and western Europe, countries with stronger women's political movements ironically had less generous and more narrow benefits for women and children. Between 1880 and 1920, Seth Koven and Sonya Michel...

... of welfare rolls, and the mau-mauing of white teachers broke the RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW 55:175-180 1993 176 /RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW spine of New York‘s civic culture” (102Having set up in that one sentence at least six straw men, the author spends much of his lively...