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Grim Fairy Tales The Rhetorical Construction of American Welfare Policy
Lisa M. Gring-Pemble
ISBN: 0-275-97870-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97870-9
256 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2003
List Price: $99.95 (UK Sterling Price: £68.95)
Discount Price: $49.98 Sale Price for U.S. Customers Only. Save 50%. Ends 12/31/2009.
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Gring-Pemble asserts that the role of language in shaping policy options is rarely studied and poorly understood. She seeks to analyze congressional hearings and debates on welfare to understand the role of language in framing welfare policy and contemporary welfare discussions.

She reviews welfare history in the United States and provides a rhetorical analysis of welfare deliberations. In the process she illustrates the significance of language and ideology in shaping American social policy outcomes.
Table of Contents:
  • The Changing Faces of American Welfare Policy: Historical Roots of Contemporary Welfare Legislation
    Welfare Legislation Is Symbolic: An Introduction
    American Social Welfare Policy in Context, 1600-1935
    American Social Welfare Policy in Context, 1940-2002
    Rhetorical Constructions of Welfare Recipients and Welfare Families in United States Congressional Hearing and Debates
    "Are We Going to Now Govern by Anecdote?": Rhetorical Constructions of Welfare Recipients in the Congressional Hearings, Debates, and Legislation, 1992-2002
    Legislating a "Normal Classic Family": The Rhetorical Construction of Families in American Welfare Policy
    The Rhetorical Force of Depiction in American Welfare Policy
    In Search of an Exigence to Warrant Reform: Public Opinion, Policy Research, and Anecdotal Evidence
    American Welfare Policy and the Ineluctable Appeal of Language: Conclusion and Implications
About the Author: LISA M. GRING-PEMBLE is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at George Mason University.
LCC Class: 361
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