TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kingfisher,Catherine
TI  - Women in the American Welfare Trap
SN  - 9780812215151
AV  - HV1445 
U1  - 362.83/8/093 20
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Aid to families with dependent children programs
KW  - United States
KW  - Aide sociale aux familles avec enfants à charge
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Aide sociale
KW  - Bénéficiaires
KW  - Défense des droits économiques et sociaux
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Femmes pauvres
KW  - Human services personnel
KW  - Political science
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - General
KW  - Poor women
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Services sociaux
KW  - Personnel
KW  - Welfare recipients
KW  - Welfare rights movement
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Political Science
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter 1. Producing the World in Everyday Talk --; Chapter 2. The Welfare Trap I: Recipients --; Chapter 3. A Tenuous Advocacy --; Chapter 4. "Us" --; Chapter 5. "Them" --; Chapter 6. The Welfare Trap II: Workers --; Chapter 7. Good and (Mostly) Bad Clients --; Chapter 8. Further Productions: Attitudes and Policy --; Chapter 9. Trapped as They Are --; Chapter 10. Conclusions --; Appendix A: Transcripts --; Appendix B --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In the United States, a majority of the poor and those who work with the poor are women. Recipients of public assistance and the welfare workers who serve them are both trapped at the bottom of the American welfare system. How do they perceive their place in society? How do they assess their self-worth in the hierarchy of a bureaucratic system? In this ethnographic study of a welfare office and two welfare rights groups, Catherine Pelissier Kingfisher addresses these issues in a thought-provoking analysis, based on the women's conversations with each other. Women in the American Welfare Trap addresses a range of significant issues: policy formation and implementation, the role of men in women's economic lives, low-income women's beliefs and aspirations, and the possibilities for women cooperatively working to change the welfare system. Indeed, Kingfisher demonstrates that women who are often viewed as victims without control actively work within the confines of the system to exert their autonomy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202465
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