Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform : Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (231 pages)
- SUNY Series in African American Studies .
- SUNY Series in African American Studies .
Intro -- Battered Black Womenand Welfare Reform -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Three Women -- 2. Regulating Women's Lives -- 3. Oh Sister, Shelter Me -- 4. Ceremonies of Degradation -- 5. No Magic in the Market -- 6. The Theater of Maternal and Child-care Politics -- 7. There's No Place (Like Home) -- 8. Strategic Missions -- 9. Meticulous Rituals of Power and Structural Violence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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Abused women -- United States. Welfare recipients -- United States. African American women. Public welfare -- United States.