Fighting the Feminization of Poverty: Socialist-Feminist Analysis and Strategy

Wendy Sarvasy and Judith Vanallen

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1984, vol. 16, issue 4, 89-110

Abstract: Socialist feminism provides a necessary corrective to the strict feminization of poverty analysis by incorporating analyses of race and class differences among women, of internal family politics shaped by the familistic ideology, and of the contradictory role of the welfare state. We use the concept of women's dual role to analyze the interconnections among the family, the labor market and the welfare state, and to examine the ways that gender and class struggles over the costs of reproduction of labor power are expressed as conflicts over welfare policies. We suggest five criteria for evaluating policy and use them to analyze two specific issues-the six-hour day and child support.

Date: 1984
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