Gwendolyn Mink is Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of several books, most recently Welfare's End and Hostile Environment, both from Cornell.

Care work has to be done and is crucially important for the welfare of society as a whole; we are interdependent when it comes to care. This book does a huge service in putting care on the wider welfare agenda.(The Journal of American History) Challenges the ways in which policymakers conceive welfare reforms.... The author explores how and why the emphasis of welfare policy should be reoriented away from regulating mothers to rewarding their caregiving work.(International Social Security Review) In this edited collection, politics professor Mink has done an extremely admirable job of covering nearly all these angles of vision through a series of essays penned by a diverse range of feminist and progressive scholars. From this perspective, Whose Welfare? includes some of the very best work available... Whose Welfare? is simply a must have for any scholar interested in the issue of welfare reform.(Contemporary Sociology) Mink... has edited a timely collection of papers on the current US family welfare system.... highly recommended for those wanting a feminist view of this highly important topic. Public and academic collections, lower-division undergraduate through research.(Choice) This volume gives us a clear historical and contemporary overview of welfare policy and practice. The material in this volume improves our broader understanding of the promise and pitfalls of welfare initiatives, and how long these have affected women, including those who are imprisoned in the United States.- Russ Immarigeon (Women, Girls and Criminal Justice) Whose Welfare?... is a welcome and timely addition to the growing body of feminist literature on welfare in the United States... It presents an excellent analysis of the causes and effects of recent welfare reform... This book should be an inspiration to those working for progressive social welfare policies in which poor women, and therefore all women, are treated with dignity and respect.(Feminist Economics)

Gwendolyn Mink is Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of several books, most recently Welfare's End and Hostile Environment, both from Cornell.

Care work has to be done and is crucially important for the welfare of society as a whole; we are interdependent when it comes to care. This book does a huge service in putting care on the wider welfare agenda.(The Journal of American History) Challenges the ways in which policymakers conceive welfare reforms.... The author explores how and why the emphasis of welfare policy should be reoriented away from regulating mothers to rewarding their caregiving work.(International Social Security Review) In this edited collection, politics professor Mink has done an extremely admirable job of covering nearly all these angles of vision through a series of essays penned by a diverse range of feminist and progressive scholars. From this perspective, Whose Welfare? includes some of the very best work available... Whose Welfare? is simply a must have for any scholar interested in the issue of welfare reform.(Contemporary Sociology) Mink... has edited a timely collection of papers on the current US family welfare system.... highly recommended for those wanting a feminist view of this highly important topic. Public and academic collections, lower-division undergraduate through research.(Choice) This volume gives us a clear historical and contemporary overview of welfare policy and practice. The material in this volume improves our broader understanding of the promise and pitfalls of welfare initiatives, and how long these have affected women, including those who are imprisoned in the United States.- Russ Immarigeon (Women, Girls and Criminal Justice) Whose Welfare?... is a welcome and timely addition to the growing body of feminist literature on welfare in the United States... It presents an excellent analysis of the causes and effects of recent welfare reform... This book should be an inspiration to those working for progressive social welfare policies in which poor women, and therefore all women, are treated with dignity and respect.(Feminist Economics)

Gwendolyn Mink is Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of several books, most recently Welfare's End and Hostile Environment, both from Cornell.

Care work has to be done and is crucially important for the welfare of society as a whole; we are interdependent when it comes to care. This book does a huge service in putting care on the wider welfare agenda.(The Journal of American History) Challenges the ways in which policymakers conceive welfare reforms.... The author explores how and why the emphasis of welfare policy should be reoriented away from regulating mothers to rewarding their caregiving work.(International Social Security Review) In this edited collection, politics professor Mink has done an extremely admirable job of covering nearly all these angles of vision through a series of essays penned by a diverse range of feminist and progressive scholars. From this perspective, Whose Welfare? includes some of the very best work available... Whose Welfare? is simply a must have for any scholar interested in the issue of welfare reform.(Contemporary Sociology) Mink... has edited a timely collection of papers on the current US family welfare system.... highly recommended for those wanting a feminist view of this highly important topic. Public and academic collections, lower-division undergraduate through research.(Choice) This volume gives us a clear historical and contemporary overview of welfare policy and practice. The material in this volume improves our broader understanding of the promise and pitfalls of welfare initiatives, and how long these have affected women, including those who are imprisoned in the United States.- Russ Immarigeon (Women, Girls and Criminal Justice) Whose Welfare?... is a welcome and timely addition to the growing body of feminist literature on welfare in the United States... It presents an excellent analysis of the causes and effects of recent welfare reform... This book should be an inspiration to those working for progressive social welfare policies in which poor women, and therefore all women, are treated with dignity and respect.(Feminist Economics)