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Women in the American welfare trap / Catherine Pélissier Kingfisher.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kingfisher, Catherine Pélissier.
Contributor:
University of Pennsylvania. Press.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Poor women--United States.
Poor women.
Welfare rights movement.
Human services personnel.
United States.
Welfare recipients--United States.
Welfare recipients.
Human services personnel--United States.
Public welfare--United States.
Public welfare.
Aid to families with dependent children programs--United States.
Aid to families with dependent children programs.
Welfare rights movement--United States.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 206 pages)
Other Title:
Penn Press e-books.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1996]
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Contents:
1. Producing the World in Everyday Talk
2. The Welfare Trap I: Recipients
3. A Tenuous Advocacy
4. "Us"
5. "Them"
6. The Welfare Trap II: Workers
7. Good and (Mostly) Bad Clients
8. Further Productions: Attitudes and Policy
9. Trapped as They Are
10. Conclusions.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-201) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
Other Format:
Print version: Kingfisher, Catherine Pélissier. Women in the American welfare trap.
ISBN:
0585120080
9780585120089
9780812202465
0812202465
OCLC:
44965512
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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