05424nam 22007093u 450 991096947630332120240401184420.0978111837877911183787769781118378748111837874197811183787621118378768(CKB)2550000001123280(EBL)1407860(OCoLC)862828718(MiAaPQ)EBC1407860(Perlego)1003570(EXLCZ)99255000000112328020140210d2013|||| u|| |engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWomen and poverty psychology, public policy, and social justice /Heather E. Bullock1st ed.Hoboken Wiley Blackwell20131 online resource (210 p.)Contemporary Social Issues and InterventionsDescription based upon print version of record.9781405183512 9781405183505 1405183500 9781299907607 1299907601 Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Author; 1: Women and Poverty: An Ongoing Crisis; Women, Poverty, and Rising Economic Inequality; The Feminization of Poverty; Measuring Poverty: The Debates Behind the Numbers; The Feminization of Homelessness; Organization of This Book; Overarching Goals; 2: Structural Sources of Women's Poverty and Homelessness; Sources of Women's Poverty; Caregiving, Motherhood, and the Price of Unpaid Labor; Women in the Paid Labor Market: Progress, Pitfalls, and Poverty; Penalizing Single MotherhoodSources of Women's Homelessness and Housing Instability: Intersections and Insights A Volatile Combination: Low Earnings and Unaffordable Housing; Structural Inequality Demands Structural Solutions; 3: Beliefs about Poverty, Wealth, and Social Class: Implications for Intergroup Relations and Social Policy; The Ideology and Reality of the "American Dream"; Core Tenets of the American Dream; Complicating the "American Dream": Implications for Leveling the Playing Field and Social Policy; Attributions for Poverty and Wealth; Types of Causal Explanations; Additional ConceptualizationsImplications of Attributions for Low-Income Women and their Families Intergroup Differences in Attributions; Explanations for Attributional Patterns; Attributions and Social Policy: The Justification of Economic Inequality; Summary; The Tenacity of Classist Attitudes and Beliefs; Unpacking Classism; Classism and Its Consequences for Everyday Interactions; Initiatives to Reduce Classist Bias: Barriers to Attitude Change; Concluding Thoughts; 4: Welfare Reform at 15 and Beyond: How Are Low-Income Women and Families Faring?; Welfare Reform: Temporary Assistance for Needy FamiliesContextualizing Welfare Reform Evaluation Research Is Welfare Reform a Success?; Providing for Needy Families?; Ending "Dependence": At What Cost?; Whose Family Values? TANF and Family Formation; Breaking the Cycle of Women and Children Last; 5: Low-Income Women, Critical Resistance, and Welfare Rights Activism; Welfare Rights Activism; Necessary in the 1960's and 1970's, Necessary Now; Barriers and Correlates of Collective Action; Individualism, Belief in Meritocracy, and the American Dream; Beliefs about Social Mobility; The Current Study; Method; Participants; Context; Procedure; AnalysisFindings Radicalizing Experiences of Interpersonal and Institutional Classism; Structural Beliefs about Inequality and the Oppressiveness of Interclass Relations; Collective Responsibility for Fighting for Economic Injustice; Economic Justice for Poor Women; Acknowledgments; 6: Women and Economic Justice: Pitfalls, Possibilities, and Promise; Reordering Our Values: Re-Visioning Democracy and Social Policy; Economic Justice and Feminist Values; Fighting for Economic Justice in a "Winner-Take-All-Society"; Changing the Focus: Reframing Poverty DiscoursePromoting Economic Justice: The Need for a Class-Conscious PsychologyWomen and Poverty analyzes the social and structural factors that contribute to, and legitimize, class inequity and women's poverty. In doing so, the book provides a unique documentation of women's experiences of poverty and classism at the individual and interpersonal levels. Provides readers with a critical analysis of the social and structural factors that contribute to women's povertyUses a multidisciplinary approach to bring together new research and theory from social psychology, policy studies, and critical and feminist scholarshipDoContemporary Social Issues and InterventionsPoor women -- Social conditionsPovertyWomen -- Economic conditionsWomen -- Social conditionsPoor women -- Social conditions.Poverty.Women -- Economic conditions.Women -- Social conditions.362.83362.839857Bullock Heather E882676AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910969476303321Women and poverty4355832UNINA