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Welfare Cuts and the Ascendance of Market Patriarchy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Marilyn Friedman
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Abstract

Recent welfare cuts have revealed that the patriarchal control of women's domestic labor has been significantly relocated from the home and the governmental bureaucracy to the marketplace. Through the sale of domestic and reproductive labor, many low income women have come to occupy a class position in relation to middle and upper income families which parallels the position occupied by the traditional wife in relation to her husband.

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Hypatia , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Summer 1988 , pp. 145 - 149
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Copyright © 1988 by Hypatia, Inc.

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