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Women at the margins : neglect, punishment, and resistance
- Title
- Women at the margins : neglect, punishment, and resistance / Josefina Figueira-McDonough, Rosemary C. Sarri, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Haworth, ©2002.
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- Description
- xxiii, 432 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Presents analysis and perspectives on the status of women n various aspects of public and private welfare systems in the United States, as well as instances of women resisting this marginalization.
- Series Statement
- Haworth innovations in feminist studies
- Uniform Title
- Haworth innovations in feminist studies
- Subject
- Women > United States
- Women > United States > Social conditions
- Women > United States > Economic conditions
- Sex discrimination against women > United States
- Women > Social conditions
- Sex discrimination against women
- Women > Economic conditions
- Sex discrimination against women
- Women
- Women > Economic conditions
- Women > Social conditions
- Soziale Situation
- Diskriminierung
- Geschlechterverhältnis
- Frau
- United States
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction to art and women at the margins / Deborah Zinn -- Increasing inequality : the ascendancy of neoconservatism and institutional exclusion of poor women / Josefina Figueira-McDonough, Rosemary C. Sarri -- Welfare reform : tightening the screws / Joel F. Handler -- The forgotten group : women in prisons and jails / Sheryl Pimlott, Rosemary C. Sarri -- The storm is passing over : marginalized African-American women / Harriette Pipes McAdoo -- The controllers and the controlled / Deborah M. Whitley, Paula L. Dressel -- Welfare reform now that we know it : enforcing women's poverty and preventing self-sufficiency / Diana M. Pearce -- Low-income women and housing : where will they live? / Elizabeth A. Mulroy -- Triple jeopardy : women marginalized by substance abuse, poverty, and incarceration / Anna Celeste Burke -- Life at the margins : older women living in poverty / Edith Elisabeth Flynn -- Teenage pregnancy : mediating rotten outcomes and improving opportunities / Judy Walruff -- Controlled and excluded : reproduction and motherhood among poor and imprisoned women / M.A. Bortner -- Children and their incarcerated mothers / Wendy C. Ascione, Joyce Dixson -- Women's recidivism and reintegration : two sides of the same coin / Patricia O'Brien, Nancy J. Harm -- Charity, ideology, and exclusion : continuities and resistance in U.S. welfare reform / Yvonne Luna, Josefina Figueira-McDonough -- Women, the law, and the justice system : neglect, violence, and resistance / Deborah LaBelle -- Borders and bridges : building new directions for the women's movement / Janet L. Finn -- Whither the twenty-first century for women at the margins : resistance and action / Rosemary C. Sarri, Josefina Figueira-McDonough.
- ISBN
- 1560239719
- 9781560239710
- 1560239727
- 9781560239727
- LCCN
- 2001051593
- OCLC
- ocm48098509
- 48098509
- SCSB-1255378
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library