Battered Women Children And Welfare Reform

Author : Ruth A. Brandwein
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battered Women, Children, and Welfare Reform written by Ruth A. Brandwein and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key chapter, written by survivors of abuse who were also welfare recipients, completes this much-needed addition to the sparse literature and research available on the connection between family violence, child support, child abuse, and welfare.

Author : Dána-Ain Davis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481301
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform written by Dána-Ain Davis and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. Dána-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black, living in a battered women's shelter in a small city in upstate New York. She explores the contradictions between welfare reform's supposed success in moving women off of public assistance and toward economic self-sufficiency and the consequences welfare reform policy has presented for Black women fleeing domestic violence. Focusing on the intersection of poverty, violence, and race, she demonstrates the differential treatment that Black and White women face in their entanglements with the welfare bureaucracy by linking those entanglements to the larger political economy of a small city, neoliberal social policies, and racialized ideas about Black women as workers and mothers.

Author : Jody Raphael
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
ISBN 13 : 1555538525
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving Bernice written by Jody Raphael and published by Northeastern University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skillfully interweaving Bernice's own eloquent words about her harrowing abuse with descriptions of other women's similar experiences and a rich synthesis of statistical findings, Jody Raphael demonstrates convincingly that domestic violence and dependence on public assistance are intricately linked. In a work that is sure to stir controversy, she challenges traditional views and stereotypes (conservative and liberal) about welfare recipients, arguing that many poor women are neither lazy nor paralyzed by a "culture of poverty," but instead are trapped by their batterers. Bernice's ordeals at the hands of her abusive partner -- brutal beatings, violent rapes, threats on her life, stalking, blocked access to birth control, and sabotage of efforts to find a job -- resonate throughout the work. The experiences she relates provide crucial insights into the welfare system and illuminate its failures, successes, and potential in helping women like her. This disquieting yet inspiring book puts a human face on the heated public policy debate over welfare reform. Above all, it is Bernice's life story and, through her voice, the story of countless other battered women who are isolated in poverty and welfare by the power and control of their abusers.

Author : Massachusetts. Governor's Commission on Domestic Violence. AFDC Working Group
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safely Toward Self-sufficiency written by Massachusetts. Governor's Commission on Domestic Violence. AFDC Working Group and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lisa D. Brush
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195398505
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy written by Lisa D. Brush and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on longitudinal interviews, government records, and personal narratives, feminist sociologist Lisa Brush examines the intersection of work, welfare, and battering. Brush contrasts conventional wisdom with illuminating analyses of social change and social structures, highlighting how race and class shape women's experiences with poverty and abuse and how "domestic" violence moves out of the home and follows women to work.Brush's unique interview data on work-related control, abuse, and sabotage, together with administrative data on earnings, welfare, and restraining orders, offer new empirical insights on the impact of work requirements and other post-welfare rescission changes on the lives of low-income and battered mothers. Personal narratives provide first-hand accounts of women's perceptions of the broad forces that shape the circumstances of their everyday lives, their health, their prospects, their ambitions, and their diagnoses of their world. Deftly integrating the political and the personal, the administrative and the narrative, the economic and the emotional, Brush underscores the vital need to reexamine ideas, policies, and practices meant to keep women safe and economically productive that instead trap women in poverty and abuse.With her fresh approach to problems people often see as intractable, Brush offers a new way of calculating the costs of battering for the policy makers and practitioners concerned with the well being of poor, battered women and their families and communities.

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Violence written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare Reform Research written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elizabeth Segal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136748938
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Promise of Welfare Reform written by Elizabeth Segal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-17 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out how—and why—legislation has made economic rights more important than human rights Since 1996, politicians and public officials in the United States have celebrated the “success” of welfare reform legislation despite little, if any, evidence to support their claims. The Promise of Welfare Reform: Political

Author : Gwendolyn Mink
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150172889X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whose Welfare? written by Gwendolyn Mink and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few decades, the goal of welfare reform has been to move poor families off of welfare, not necessarily out of poverty. By that criterion, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 has been successful indeed: throughout the nation, millions have vanished from the welfare rolls. But what has been the cost of this "success" to the women and children who were the overwhelming majority of recipients? Here a group of distinguished feminist scholars examines the causes and the impact of recent changes in welfare policy. Some of the authors trace the politics of welfare from the 1960s, emphasizing how attitudes toward "motherwork" and "working mothers" have evolved in the backlash against poor women's motherhood. Several other authors consider the effects of the new welfare policy on employment and wages, on the lives of noncitizen immigrants, on poor women's ability to escape domestic violence, and on their reproductive and parental rights. A third set of authors explores dependency and caregiving, along with the role of feminist thinking on these issues in the politics of welfare. Whose Welfare? concludes with a historical analysis of activism among poor women. By illuminating that legacy, the volume challenges readers to build progressive agendas from the demands and actions of poor and working-class women.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welfare Reform written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: