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Women, Welfare and The Politics of Need Interpretation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2020

Nancy Fraser
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Abstract

I argue that social-welfare struggles should become more central for feminists. To clarify these, I offer an analysis of the U.S. welfare system. I expose the system's underlying gender norms and show how administrative practices preemptively define women's needs. I then situate these state practices in a larger terrain of struggle over the interpretation of social needs where feminists can intervene.

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Hypatia , Volume 2 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Philosophy and Women Symposium , Winter 1987 , pp. 103 - 121
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Copyright © 1987 by Hypatia, Inc.

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