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000003273 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.6082/uchicago.3273
000003273 037__ $$aTHESIS$$bThesis
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000003273 245__ $$aEarning and Sharing: Women Entrepreneurs and the American Welfare State
000003273 260__ $$bUniversity of Chicago
000003273 269__ $$a2021-08
000003273 336__ $$aThesis
000003273 502__ $$bM.A.
000003273 520__ $$aThe Women’s Business Ownership Act was passed in 1988 to facilitate the integration of women entrepreneurs into the business mainstream. Women’s claims over social resources, however, were complicated by the stigma of dependency, prevailing stereotypes of women’s inadequacy and distributional conflict. This paper thus examines how advocates attempted to maneuver around these limitations by constructing a collective identity for women entrepreneurs as an economic development force. Leveraging the ideological and economic appeal of entrepreneurship, advocates advanced new claims on the welfare state which hybridized economic contributions with ideas of interdependence and solidarity. Such claims constitute a partial disruption to the highly durable cultural schemas and logics that underpin social provision, such as the dependence-independence dichotomy.
000003273 540__ $$a© 2021 Gracia Jie Yi Lee
000003273 690__ $$aSocial Sciences Division
000003273 691__ $$aMA Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS)
000003273 7001_ $$aLee, Gracia$$uUniversity of Chicago
000003273 72012 $$aElisabeth S. Clemens
000003273 72014 $$aCaterina Fugazzola
000003273 8564_ $$92e2a6aa7-b664-42da-a15c-db5861f08936$$s430981$$uhttps://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/3273/files/Thesis%20_%20Final%20Draft%20_%20Gracia%20Lee%20_%2007.31.21.pdf$$eEmbargo (2060-12-31)
000003273 908__ $$aI agree
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000003273 983__ $$aThesis