03427nam 2200709Ia 450 991096842170332120200520144314.09780791481301079148130197814294050721429405074(CKB)1000000000465817(OCoLC)71849379(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579143(SSID)ssj0000109178(PQKBManifestationID)11124729(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109178(PQKBWorkID)10047324(PQKB)10958140(MiAaPQ)EBC3407720(MdBmJHUP)muse6446(Au-PeEL)EBL3407720(CaPaEBR)ebr10579143(OCoLC)923407737(DE-B1597)736044(DE-B1597)9780791481301(EXLCZ)99100000000046581720050902d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBattered Black women and welfare reform between a rock and a hard place /Dana-Ain Davis1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20061 online resource (231 p.) SUNY series in African American studiesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791468432 0791468437 Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-207) and index.Three women -- Regulating women's lives -- Oh sister, shelter me -- Ceremonies of degradation -- No magic in the market : mandatory work and training programs -- The theater of maternal and child-care politics -- There's no place (like home) -- Strategic missions -- Meticulous rituals of power and structural violence.Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. Dána-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black, living in a battered women's shelter in a small city in upstate New York. She explores the contradictions between welfare reform's supposed success in moving women off of public assistance and toward economic self-sufficiency and the consequences welfare reform policy has presented for Black women fleeing domestic violence. Focusing on the intersection of poverty, violence, and race, she demonstrates the differential treatment that Black and White women face in their entanglements with the welfare bureaucracy by linking those entanglements to the larger political economy of a small city, neoliberal social policies, and racialized ideas about Black women as workers and mothers.SUNY series in African American studies.Abused womenUnited StatesWelfare recipientsUnited StatesAfrican American womenPublic welfareUnited StatesAbused womenWelfare recipientsAfrican American women.Public welfare362.5/5680820973Davis Dana-Ain1958-1124477MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910968421703321Battered Black women and welfare reform4347812UNINA