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Linda Gordon is an American historian whose scholarship examines gender, family, social welfare, reproductive politics, and modern United States history. Her books include Woman's Body, Woman's Right, a history of birth control in the United States, and The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction, which stud...
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Respected historian of gender, welfare and social movements; influential across American social history.
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Frances Fox Piven is an American political scientist and sociologist whose work examines poverty, welfare policy, voting, and disruptive collective action. With Richard Cloward, she wrote Regulating the Poor and Poor People's Movements, studies of welfare institutions and the conditions under which...
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Important political sociologist and activist scholar; disruptive power thesis influential, public reputation ideologically contested.
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