03868nam 2200745 a 450 991045490880332120211015014924.01-283-89021-60-8122-0246-50-585-12008-010.9783/9780812202465(CKB)111004368590008(OCoLC)44965512(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641601(SSID)ssj0000273328(PQKBManifestationID)11207250(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273328(PQKBWorkID)10310401(PQKB)10322441(MiAaPQ)EBC3441766(MdBmJHUP)muse24387(DE-B1597)449105(OCoLC)979577828(DE-B1597)9780812202465(Au-PeEL)EBL3441766(CaPaEBR)ebr10641601(CaONFJC)MIL420271(OCoLC)929157087(EXLCZ)9911100436859000819960503d1996 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrWomen in the American welfare trap[electronic resource] /Catherine Pélissier KingfisherPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc19961 online resource (217 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-1515-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-201) and index.Front matter --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 --IndexIn 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.Poor womenUnited StatesWelfare recipientsUnited StatesHuman services personnelUnited StatesPublic welfareUnited StatesAid to families with dependent children programsUnited StatesWelfare rights movementUnited StatesElectronic books.Poor womenWelfare recipientsHuman services personnelPublic welfareAid to families with dependent children programsWelfare rights movement362.83/8/093Kingfisher Catherine Pélissier936068MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454908803321Women in the American welfare trap2489024UNINA