Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform - Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Hardcover)

This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. DC na-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.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series in African American Studies
Release date:	August 2006
First published:	December 2006
Authors:	Dana-Ain Davis
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	229
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-6843-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > Domestic violence Promotions
LSN:	0-7914-6843-7
Barcode:	9780791468432

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