At the same time that the earnings gap between full-time women and men work- ers declined between 1979 and 1994 to 0.76, Black women and women of Hispanic origin were twice as likely to experience unemployment as white women.

Welfare and dependency must be redefined by feminists working together with the most vulnerable among us or feminism itself will be eclipsed, and its gains will have some lasting effect only for a few elite women.".

It is a feature of the human life cycle and within the scope of human vulnerability. I argue that we can acknowledge dependency and work toward an ideal of "managed dependency. The assault on welfare reached signdieant proportions in the Reagan era and was in full force in many states prior to the initiatives of the 104th Congress. (36). Together with other women's groups, we met with the White House Office for Women's Initiative and Outreach and with Leon Panetta; we mounted several veto campaigns; we put together a teach-in packet on welfare and urged our members to hold teach-ins at their universities; we lobbied again; but the third go-round on the welfare bill was quick and nasty. Discover our research outputs and cite our work. Where were the feminist organizations on this issue?

Female-headed households account for the poorest families in the United States. Robin Toner, "Resolved: No More Bleeding Hearts (Both Democrats and Republi- cans Are Supporting Welfare Reform)," New York Times, 16 July 1995. It is our moral duty to stand together at this critical juncture. Through their generosity and ef- forts, we raised the money for several full-scale lobbying efforts that saw Odetta along with Betty F'riedan and representatives from welfare rights organizations walk through the halls of the House and Senate speaking to our elected representatives and asking for their support in opposing the welfare legislation. See all articles by Eva Feder Kittay Eva Feder Kittay.

Asha Bhandary - 2010 - Hypatia 25 (1):140-156. States must apply for the funds and must conduct programs that conform to the act's definition of abstinence education (PL 104-193, Sec. Although human dependency is realized differently under different his- torical conditions, it remains an inevitable feature of human social life.

In these house- holds, breadwinning and unpaid dependency work is the re- sponsibility of the same person. If we lose her, we lose our future. Martha Fineman and Perry Twila (New York: Routledge, forthcoming). Their concerns can be heard in the political arena only when another chooses to speak for them. This was particularly troubling be- cause feminists, especially within the academy, were becoming increasingly conscious of the charges by women of color that feminism has failed to take their issues seriously. Capitalism and the Oppression of Women: Marx Revisited. The work is hailed as a major contribution to the development of an ethics of care. We mounted a full-page ad in the New York ZTmes, in which we made the case that every woman in America needs to beware of welfare cuts, and urged Clinton to veto the legislation. Billing itself as a campaign to decrease women's depen- dency on welfare and to increase women's self-sufficiency, but simultaneously withdrawing federal assistance for women who find themselves without male support, this legislation pauper- ized low-income women. The category of dependency worker is not simply another "univer- sal" among women. Referring to the efforts of the Republican 104th Congress to ram through "welfare reform," New York Democratic Represen- tative Charles Rangel declared in July 1994: "What shocks and surprises me is that while this revolution is taking place and taking prisoners, there doesn't seem to be an organized opposi- tion. Glenn will be proved right and the cause of feminism will suffer unless women speak and think together concerning policies that will benefit both sets of women and will lessen the increasing disparity between them.

In hospitals and nursing homes, orderlies and aids, those who do most of the hands-on dependency care of patients and clients, are the lowest paid staff. 13 (2005), 443-469. I argue this point in more detail in Eva Feder Kittay, "Dependency Work, Politi- cal Discourse, and a New Basis for a Coalition amongst Women," in Women, Chil- dren, and Poverty, ed. For an excellent discussion of the interlocking of raciavethnic wom- en's work and white women's work and the ways in which the latter group benefits from the racialized nature of the sexual division of labor, see Evelyn Nakano Glenn, "From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor," Signs 18 (autumn 1992): 1-43. Reviewed by Robert A. Wilson, University of Western Australia

Dependency is a keyword in disability studies. 1(spring 1998). They include those who are too young, too ill or disabled, or too fi.ail in their advanced old age to function as autonomous or as equals. Who will benefit from increased services?"

Joan Tronto, Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (New York: Routledge, 1993).

Why are the women who depend on welfare "dependent"? By Eva Kittay. Dependency workers, who have someone else assigned the responsibility to attend to their material well-being and that of their dependents, do bet- ter. Eva F eder Kittay: Dependency W ork and the Social Division of . Glenn points to the difficulties that await this effort. But one difficulty with most theories of equality lies in what seems their greatest virtue. Welfare State," Signs 19 (winter 1994): 309-36. "l Welfare reform applied largely to the now-defunct pro- gram known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and also included cutbacks to aid for disabled poor, Supplemental Security Income, food stamp and medicaid eligi- bility, and nearly all federal assistance for legal immigrants.

No Man’s Land: Exploring the Space Between Gilligan and Kohlberg. In fact, voices were raised on behalf of the millions of mothers and children whose fate hung in the balance as Presi- dent Clinton decided whether to veto the welfare legislation coming out of Congress. Unless mainstream activist feminism, which has served professional and some other middle-class women so well, and academic feminism, which is making an effort to incorporate differences, can find a way to address the increasing impoverishment of so many women, especially women laboring under racial oppression, or bring the resources of the women who have benefited to the women who are victimized by the economic and political forces shaping all our lives, feminism it- self will flounder and go into one of its historic retreats. That is the dependency inherent in our condition as vulnerable beings, who exist in a social order through contem- poraneous and generational links. It caught us all off-guard and with the elec- tions around the corner, we could not make the difference. Request. Dependency workers have the ability to care for and speak for themselves, but insofar as they are dependency workers they have to care for and speak for those who cannot do so for themselves-and sometimes, I believe one can argue, they have the moral duty to care for or speak for the dependent even when it counters their own inter- ests. One of my own children is profoundly retard- ed and has cerebral palsy. 316). Before January 1995, I too had not been involved in issues of welfare nor had I more than a passing acquaintance with schol- arship on the subject. I would like to thank the editors of Feminist Studies for their helpful comments and all the women who helped establish the Women's Committee of 100.

Feminist Studies 24, no. We must not tolerate this attack on the poorest among us.

Eva Feder Kittay, "Taking Dependency Seriously: The Family and Medical Leave Act Considered in Light of the Social Organization of Dependency Work and Gender Equality," Hypatia 10 (winter 1995): 8-29, and "Human Dependency and Rawlsian Equality," in Feminists Rethink the Self, ed. A cover story in U.S. News and World Report, 28 Mar.

Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon traced the negative connotations of the term which resonate with its use in the expression "welfare dependen~y. Jefher Allen (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), 159-81; Julianne Malveaux, "Gen- der Difference and Beyond: An Economic Perspective on Diversity and Commonality among Women," in Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, ed. I see the importance of women addressing the issue of welfare in these historic as well as moral terms.

Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon, "A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Key- word of the U.S. This paper was originally presented at the American Historical Association panel on "Scholarship and Activism: The Case of Welfare Justice," held at the Sheraton Ho- tel, New York City on January 3, 1997. Click EDIT to add/edit tags. It is not only the case that she is not equal in the rele- vant sense, because some desideratum of the ideal of a society of equals has not been realized. We cannot stand by while those who are most vulnerable receive the full force of the backlash and fury of men who fear the erosion of their power. O 1998by Feminist Studies, Inc. Rangel, was shocked at the silence and impotence of the orga- nized Left in defending the interests of poor women and their families (as well as poor immigrant communities).

Dependency Relations: Corporeal Vulnerability and Norms of Personhood in Hobbes and Kittay.

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