LEADER 03832nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910808011203321 005 20240418024106.0 010 $a1-283-89021-6 010 $a0-8122-0246-5 010 $a0-585-12008-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202465 035 $a(CKB)111004368590008 035 $a(OCoLC)44965512 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641601 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000273328 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11207250 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273328 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10310401 035 $a(PQKB)10322441 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24387 035 $a(DE-B1597)449105 035 $a(OCoLC)979577828 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202465 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441766 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641601 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420271 035 $a(OCoLC)929157087 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441766 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368590008 100 $a19960503d1996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen in the American welfare trap /$fCatherine Pe?lissier Kingfisher 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc1996 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-1515-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [195]-201) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter 1. Producing the World in Everyday Talk --$tChapter 2. The Welfare Trap I: Recipients --$tChapter 3. A Tenuous Advocacy --$tChapter 4. "Us" --$tChapter 5. "Them" --$tChapter 6. The Welfare Trap II: Workers --$tChapter 7. Good and (Mostly) Bad Clients --$tChapter 8. Further Productions: Attitudes and Policy --$tChapter 9. Trapped as They Are --$tChapter 10. Conclusions --$tAppendix A: Transcripts --$tAppendix B --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aPoor women$zUnited States 606 $aWelfare recipients$zUnited States 606 $aHuman services personnel$zUnited States 606 $aPublic welfare$zUnited States 606 $aAid to families with dependent children programs$zUnited States 606 $aWelfare rights movement$zUnited States 615 0$aPoor women 615 0$aWelfare recipients 615 0$aHuman services personnel 615 0$aPublic welfare 615 0$aAid to families with dependent children programs 615 0$aWelfare rights movement 676 $a362.83/8/093 700 $aKingfisher$b Catherine Pe?lissier$01664012 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808011203321 996 $aWomen in the American welfare trap$94021802 997 $aUNINA