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Wives Without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, And Welfare In New York, 19001935 (Gender And American Culture),Used
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Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute 'deadbeat dads,' Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make 'runaway husbands' support their families. Anna R. Igra investigates the interrelated histories of marriage and welfare policy in the early 1900s, revealing how reformers sought to make marriage the solution to women's and children's poverty.Igra taps a rich trove of case files from the National Desertion Bureau, a Jewish husbandlocation agency, and follows hundreds of deserted women through the welfare and legal systems of early twentiethcentury New York City. She integrates a broad range of topics, including Americanization as a gendered process, breadwinning as a measure of manhood, the relationship between consumer culture and social policy formation, the class dimensions of family law, and the Jewish community as a source of welfare policy innovation. Igra analyzes the history of antidesertion reform from its emergence in social policy debates, through the establishment of domestic relations courts, to Depression relief programs. She shows that early twentiethcentury reformers, by attempting to make instrumental use of poor people's intimate relations, anticipated welfare policies in our own time that promote marriage as an answer to poverty.
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