Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Women in the American welfare trap / / Catherine Pélissier Kingfisher



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Kingfisher Catherine Pélissier Visualizza persona
Titolo: Women in the American welfare trap / / Catherine Pélissier Kingfisher Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1996
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
Disciplina: 362.83/8/093
Soggetto topico: Poor women - United States
Welfare recipients - United States
Human services personnel - United States
Public welfare - United States
Aid to families with dependent children programs - United States
Welfare rights movement - United States
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-201) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Women in the American welfare trap  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-89021-6
0-8122-0246-5
0-585-12008-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808011203321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui