Regulating the Lives of Women

This new edition of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present traces how the welfare state regulated the lives of women from colonial times to the present. It is an essential resource for students of social work, sociology, political science, public policy, and gender studies.

Mimi Abramovitz is Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor of Social Policy Emerita at the Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA.