Promoting Freedom from Poverty
Political Mobilization and the Role of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4879747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diana Zoelle, Diana G Zoelle, Jyl Josephson (0000-0002-4843-2705) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-26 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400260 |
| OpenAlex | W2059366624 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
Contemporary social policy toward low-income women in the United States, as evidenced both by Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) and by the AFDC programme that preceded it, is in part an artefact of long-standing conceptions of the nature of citizenship. This view sees citizenship as resting primarily on civil and political rights, not on rights with respect to economic, social, and cultural matters. Drawing on scholarly literature on the development of international human rights regimes, the feminist literature that analyses social policy both comparatively and in terms of US domestic policy, and literature regarding contemporary movements among low-income persons, this paper analyses the efforts of one organization, the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), to challenge US policy via international human rights law and international enforcement mechanisms. We will suggest that, despite some of the flaws of the KWRU, their approach is a promising one for low-income women. In particular, we wish to suggest that a broader conception of citizenship that takes into account economic, cultural, and social rights is necessary to create a more equitable and democratic polity for women
Citizenship · Cultural rights · Human rights · International human rights law · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Poverty · Social policy · Social rights · Sociology · Welfare rights · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Between the lines
What's fair?
Poor People's Movements
Grassroots Warriors
Protest, Policy, and the Problem of Violence against Women
States, Markets, Families
Lone Mothers, Economic Well‐Being, and Policies
Welfare, Dependency, and a Public Ethic of Care
Gender, Equality and Welfare States
Whose Welfare?
"Comment on Jane Lewis's "Gender and Welfare Regimes
Gender and Welfare Regimes
Gender and social policy
Gender in Early U.S. Social Policy
State Welfare Reform for Employable General Assistance Recipients
Brutal Need
U.S. Ratification of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
(Dis)Entitling the Poor
A Genealogy of Dependency
Why Americans hate welfare
Justice interruptus
Hard Labor
Under Attack, Fighting Back
The National Welfare Rights Movement
Care Work
Feminist State Theory
Poverty Research and Policy for the Post-Welfare Era
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |