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Author Armstrong, Louise, 1937-2008.

Title Of 'sluts' and 'bastards' : a feminist decodes the child welfare debate / Louise Armstrong
Published Monroe, Me. : Common Courage Press, [1995]
©1995

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 W'PONDS  362.70973 Arm/Osa  AVAILABLE
Description 344 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Contents 1. Some Informational Baggage -- 2. Child Welfare's "Conversion Principle" -- 3. The Perils of Pauline Commence -- 4. Policy Triumphs over Reality -- 5. Pauli Encounters Miss Jefferson -- 6. A Worker Explains His Duties -- 7. The Trials of Motherhood -- 8. The Rights of a Violent Father -- 9. Pauli Makes Headway -- 10. Where Help Might Have Helped -- 11. "Unfit Children" -- 12. Victorian Child Pedagogy -- 13. Pauli...More Complications -- 14. Laura Speaks Her Mind -- 15. Indoctrination to Mother-Blame -- 16. Incest Strikes and the System Scrambles -- 17. Abused, "Dependent," "Delinquent," "Disordered" -- 18. The Follies of "Treatment" -- 19. An End to Pauli's Perils -- 20. The Courts that Giveth and Taketh Away -- 21. Confidentiality: An Immaculate Conception
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-344)
Subject Child welfare -- United States.
Feminist theory -- United States.
Single mothers -- Government policy -- United States.
Welfare recipients -- United States.
LC no. 95034682
ISBN 1567510663 (paperback)
1567510671 (cloth)