ISBN:
9781560239710
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (441 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Women at the Margins : Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance
DDC:
305.42/0973
Keywords:
Sex discrimination against women ; United States
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Women ; United States ; Economic conditions
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Women ; United States ; Social conditions
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Women ; United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A compelling look at the crisis of disadvantaged women This powerful document takes a sobering look at the phenomenon of marginalized women pushed to the edges of society, holding on with the barest of hope and extraordinary bravery. Handicapped by the increasing societal inequality they face as an everyday fact of life, these women (and in many cases, their children) have been disconnected from the mainstream for reasons of age, race, gender, health, incarceration, domestic abuse, unwanted pregnancy, unemployment, and economic circumstance. They are poor in an affluent society, powerless in
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Women at the Margins; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction to Art and Women at the Margins; Why Art?; Chapter 1. Increasing Inequality: The Ascendancy of Neoconservatism and Institutional Exclusion of Poor Women; The Laissez-Faire Myth, the Neoconservatives, and the Liberal Model of Welfare; The American Gulag: Extending the Net of Control; The Added Oppression of Women Behind Bars; Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance of Marginalized Women
Description / Table of Contents:
SECTION I: INCREASING THE DUAL CONTROL OF WOMEN AND DISTORTING THEIR STRENGTHChapter 2. Welfare Reform: Tightening the Screws; Welfare in "Crisis": 1960s-1996; The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA); The Work-First Strategy; The Future; Chapter 3. The Forgotten Group: Women in Prisons and Jails; Introduction; Background; Women and Crime; Behavior and Attitudes of Women in Prison; History of the Incarceration of Women; Characteristics of Female Offenders; Conclusions and Recommendations
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Chapter 4. The Storm Is Passing Over: Marginalized African-American WomenAfrican Cultural Legacies; Demographic Changes; Family Structure; Roles of Males in Families; Marginalization and Urban Sprawl; The Passing Storm; SECTION II: BLOCKAGES TO AUTONOMY; Chapter 5. The Controllers and the Controlled; The Controllers and the Controlled in Political-Economic Context; Forms and Context of Control; Policy Framework of Control: Personal Responsibility and TANF; Practice Framework of Control: Welfare Workers and Welfare Recipients; Policy Framework of Control: The Get-Tough Policy
Description / Table of Contents:
Practice Framework of Control: Relations Between Guards and PrisonersProspects for the Future; Chapter 6. Welfare Reform Now That We Know It: Enforcing Women's Poverty and Preventing Self-Sufficiency; The Centrality of Motherhood and Family Preservation; Mothers, Work, and Welfare: Not a New Combination; The Impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform: Work Requirements and Time Limits; Evaluating the Economic Resources of Families PostWelfare; Chapter 7. Low-Income Women and Housing: Where Will They Live?; Roots of the Crisis: Structural and Personal Factors; Affordable Housing Programs
Description / Table of Contents:
The Housing Affordability SqueezeHousing Is a Women's Issue; SECTION III: GENDER, AGE, AND HEALTH INTERACTIONS; Chapter 8. Triple Jeopardy: Women Marginalized by Substance Abuse, Poverty, and Incarceration; Introduction; Vicious Cycles and Downward Spirals; Substance Use and Abuse Among Women: Closing the Gender Gap; Differences in the "Addiction Careers" of Men and Women; Policies of Neglect and Punishment Toward Women with Substance Abuse Problems; Bringing an End to Vicious Cycles and Downward Spirals; Finding the Will to Change Women's Lives
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9. Life at the Margins: Older Women Living in Poverty
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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