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Item Neoconservatism in the United States and the institutionalized exclusion of Poor Women(Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2007) McDonough, Josefina Figueira; Faculdade de Ciências Sociais, Educação e AdministraçãoPublic Assistance to the poor in the United States was always been reluctant and especially cruel to women. A society that from the outset prized Kantian principles of individual freedom over Rousseau’s notions of social contract and that was dominated by a puritanical morality saw poverty as self-made. If individuals had freedom of choice, bad outcomes were necessarily caused by bad choices. The poor had themselves to blame.