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- Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-11
- 1. Three Women
- pp. 13-34
- 2. Regulating Women’s Lives
- pp. 35-51
- 3. Oh Sister, Shelter Me
- pp. 53-65
- 4. Ceremonies of Degradation
- pp. 67-88
- 5. No Magic in the Market
- pp. 89-111
- 7. There’s No Place (Like Home)
- pp. 133-152
- 8. Strategic Missions
- pp. 153-178
- Bibliography
- pp. 193-207
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791481301
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
71849379
Pages
229
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No