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1,518,535 held in the nation’s prisons at midyear 2007

There is a multiplicity of family forms in the United States and throughout the world. When we try to define the word “family” we realize just how slippery of a concept it is. Does family mean those who are blood related? This definition of family excludes stepparents and adopted children from a definition of those in one’s family. It also denies the existence of fictive kin, or non-blood related people that one considers to be part of one’s family. Does family mean a nuclear family (composed of legally-married parents and their children ), as it so often is thought to in the contemporary United States? This excludes extended kin—or family members such as uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, nephews, and nieces. It also excludes single parents, the unmarried, and those couples who do not have children. Or does family denote a common household characterized by economic cooperation? This definition would exclude those who consider each other family but cannot or do not live in the same household, often times for economic reasons—for example, South or Central American parents leaving their country of origin to make wages in the United States and send them back to their families—or because of incarceration.

image of Black women as sexually promiscuous

It is clear that this initiative was more about promoting a political ideology than actually attempting to remedy the social problem of poverty.

The distribution of welfare in the US is a gendered process in which women, especially mothers, are much more likely to receive assistance than men

People of color” vs. “Colored people

Liberal feminism Marxist feminism Radical feminism Anti-porn feminism Sex positive feminism Separatist feminism Cultural feminism Womanism (intersectional feminism) Postcolonial feminism Ecofeminism Girlie feminism

Depending on which point-of-view you begin with, you will have very different theories of how industrial capitalism developed, and how it works today.

Socially-lived theorizing means creating feminist theories and knowledge from the actual day-to-day experiences of groups of people who have traditionally been excluded from the production of academic knowledge.

not only for women but also for men and people of all genders, across a broad expanse of topics

In subsequent decades, studies and contributions of women of color, immigrant women, women from the global south, poor and working class women, and lesbian and queer women became integral to Women’s Studies. More recently, analyses of disability, sexualities, masculinities, religion, science, gender diversity, incarceration, indigeneity, and settler colonialism have become centered in the field