Word: manless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ultimate targets of the antiwelfare rhetoric are women, and not only the poor. Going after upscale women can still be a political faux pas, as Dan Quayle discovered. But the welfare mother makes an ideal scapegoat for the imagined sins of womankind in general. She's officially manless, in defiance of the patriarchal norm, just like any brazen executive-class single mother by choice. At the same time, she's irritatingly "dependent," like the old- fashioned, cookie-baking mom. But unlike her more upscale sisters, the welfare mom is too poor and despised to mount a defense. And unlike Anita...