This article explores the ways in which sexism is embedded in welfare policy by examining the hidden gender assumptions of the Family Support Act of 1988. An overview of feminist perspectives on the state reveals five key ways that the state organizes women's oppression. These five categories of analysis are used to demonstrate how patriarchal social relations are organized through the act.
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Nancy A. Naples (1991) studied this question.
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