Write 5 pages thesis on the topic us welfare policy: state, class, and gender dimensions. health care.” The term “neo-liberalism”, however, is a term often used by the enemies of the term rather than by its friends . Although the term has started to be popular in 1989, the beginnings of neo-liberalist advocacies were much earlier. For Wacquant, neo-liberalization is also the “penalization of poverty” that is in contrast with the welfare advocates concern for lifting people out of poverty. Neo-liberalism is a development of classical liberalism that “originated in seventeeth-century England”. According to Abramovitz, “liberalism held that the competitive pursuit of individual self-interest in a market free of government regulation would maximize personal and societal benefits.” Abramovitz associated liberalism with Adam Smith whose views was expanded to mean that “the market, rather than the state, should be the regulator of society.” Meanwhile, liberal feminism “accepts liberal political theory but argues that its practice excludes women”.