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Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy (Hardcover, New)
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Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy (Hardcover, New)
Series: Interpersonal Violence
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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.
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