She is currently writing her fifth the book, Gendered Obligations: The History of Activism Among Black and White Working-Class Women Since 1900. 2000) (named the “Outstanding Book on the Subject of Intolerance “by the Myers Human Rights Center). Her books include Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (Routledg e, 4 th ed forthcoming, 2025) The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy (Oxford, 4 th ed., 2014) Taxes Area Women’s Issue: Reframing the Debate (Feminist Press, 2006) Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the US (Monthly Review 2 nd ed. Her research interests include women, the US welfare state, poverty, inequality, activism, and the impact of public policy on human service organizations–all viewed through the lens of history, political economy, race, class, and patriarchy. An engaged faculty member, at Silberman, Mimi also cofounded the specialized Policy Track for community organization students served as the long-term chair the Social Policy Curriculum area, as well as chair of the school’s Curriculum Committee (three years) and a member of the Dean’s Council. She also served as consortia faculty at the Graduate Center’s School of Labor and Urban Studies. During the past four decades she taught social policy at Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College and the Social Welfare Doctoral Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Mimi Abramovitz, Bertha Capen Reynolds Professor Emerita received her BA in Sociology from the University of Michigan and her MSW (in community organization) and DSW (in social policy and economics) from Columbia School of Social Work.
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