| Description |
xxiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Haworth innovations in feminist studies |
|
Haworth innovations in feminist studies.
|
| Contents |
Foreword / Patsy Takemoto Mink -- Introduction to Art and Women at the Margins / Deborah Zinn -- Ch. 1. Increasing Inequality: The Ascendancy of Neoconservatism and Institutional Exclusion of Poor Women / Josefina Figueira-McDonough and Rosemary C. Sarri -- Sect. I. Increasing the Dual Control of Women and Distorting their Strength -- Ch. 2. Welfare Reform: Tightening the Screws / Joel F. Handler -- Ch. 3. The Forgotten Group: Women in Prisons and Jails / Sheryl Pimlott and Rosemary C. Sarri -- Ch. 4. The Storm Is Passing Over: Marginalized African-American Women / Harriette Pipes McAdoo -- Sect. II. Blockages to Autonomy -- Ch. 5. The Controllers and the Controlled / Deborah M. Whitley and Paula L. Dressel -- Ch. 6. Welfare Reform Now That We Know It: Enforcing Women's Poverty and Preventing Self-Sufficiency / Diana M. Pearce -- Ch. 7. Low-Income Women and Housing: Where Will They Live? / Elizabeth A. Mulroy -- Sect. III. Gender, Age, and Health Interactions -- Ch. 8. Triple Jeopardy: Women Marginalized by Substance Abuse, Poverty, and Incarceration / Anna Celeste Burke -- Ch. 9. Life at the Margins: Older Women Living in Poverty / Edith Elisabeth Flynn -- Ch. 10. Teenage Pregnancy: Mediating Rotten Outcomes and Improving Opportunities / Judy Walruff -- Sect. IV. Bad Women, Undeserving Mothers -- Ch. 11. Controlled and Excluded: Reproduction and Motherhood Among Poor and Imprisoned Women / M. A. Bortner -- Ch. 12. Children and Their Incarcerated Mothers / Wendy C. Ascione and Joyce Dixson -- Ch. 13. Women's Recidivism and Reintegration: Two Sides of the Same Coin / Patricia O'Brien and Nancy J. Harm -- Sect. V. Pragmatic Knowledge, Legal Redressing, and Women's Solidarity -- Ch. 14. Charity, Ideology, and Exclusion: Continuities and Resistance in U.S. Welfare Reform / Yvonne Luna and Josefina Figueira-McDonough -- Ch. 15. Women, the Law, and the Justice System: Neglect, Violence, and Resistance / Deborah LaBelle -- Ch. 16. Borders and Bridges: Building New Directions for the Women's Movement / Janet L. Finn -- Sect. VI. Action Strategies for Today -- Ch. 17. Whither the Twenty-First Century for Women at the Margins: Resistance and Action / Rosemary C. Sarri and Josefina Figueira-McDonough.PLD) IC Technolog |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women -- United States.
|
|
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
|
|
Women -- United States -- Economic conditions.
|
|
Sex discrimination against women -- United States.
|
| Author |
Sarri, Rosemary C.
|
|
Figueira-McDonough, Josefina.
|
| LC no. |
2001051593 |
| ISBN |
1560239727 alkaline paper |
|
1560239719 alkaline paper |
|
