KEEPING WOMEN AND CHILDREN LAST

Penguin, New York, 1996, 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-14-024663-0.  Trade soft cover, 232 pages including Notes, Bibliography and Index.  Unread copy with a touch of edge wear; remainder mark on bottom edge; pages lightly tanned.  ‘She shows how America, in its search for a post-Cold War enemy, has turned inward to target single mothers on welfare and how politicians have scapegoated and stigmatized female-headed families both as a method of social control and to divert attention from the severe problems that Americans face.  Most important, she reveals the real victims of poverty – the millions of children who suffer from societal neglect, inferior education, inadequate health care, hunger, and homelessness.  Citing statistics that are both terrifying and disturbing, Sidel delivers a chilling indictment of the current trends and political maneuvering that threaten to keep America’s poor women and children last.’ (from rear wrap)