LEADER 05112nam 22005773u 450 001 9910790532903321 005 20240104062758.0 010 $a1-118-37877-6 010 $a1-118-37874-1 010 $a1-118-37876-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000001123280 035 $a(EBL)1407860 035 $a(OCoLC)862828718 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1407860 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001123280 100 $a20140210d2013|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aWomen and poverty $epsychology, public policy, and social justice /$fHeather E. Bullock 210 $aHoboken $cWiley Blackwell$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (210 p.) 225 1 $aContemporary Social Issues and Interventions 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-4051-8350-0 311 0 $a1-299-90760-1 311 0 $a9781405183512 327 $aCover; 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 Motherhood 327 $aSources 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 Conceptualizations 327 $aImplications 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 Families 327 $aContextualizing 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; Analysis 327 $aFindings 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 Discourse 327 $aPromoting Economic Justice: The Need for a Class-Conscious Psychology 330 $aWomen and Poverty analyzes the social and structural factors that contribute to, and legitimize, class inequity and women's poverty. In doing so, the book provides a unique documentation of women's experiences of poverty and classism at the individual and interpersonal levels. Provides readers with a critical analysis of the social and structural factors that contribute to women's povertyUses a multidisciplinary approach to bring together new research and theory from social psychology, policy studies, and critical and feminist scholarshipDo 410 0$aContemporary Social Issues and Interventions 606 $aPoor women -- Social conditions 606 $aPoverty 606 $aWomen -- Economic conditions 606 $aWomen -- Social conditions 615 4$aPoor women -- Social conditions. 615 4$aPoverty. 615 4$aWomen -- Economic conditions. 615 4$aWomen -- Social conditions. 676 $a362.83 676 $a362.839857 700 $aBullock$b Heather E$0882676 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790532903321 996 $aWomen and poverty$93842699 997 $aUNINA