Battered Black women and welfare reform : between a rock and a hard place / Dana-Ain Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Dána-Ain, 1958-

Series:

SUNY series in African American studies.

SUNY series in African American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abused women--United States.

Abused women.

Welfare recipients--United States.

Welfare recipients.

African American women.

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. Dána-Ain Davis profiles twenty-two women, thirteen of whom are Black, living in a battered women's shelter in a small city in upstate New York. She explores the contradictions between welfare reform's supposed success in moving women off of public assistance and toward economic self-sufficiency and the consequences welfare reform policy has presented for Black women fleeing domestic violence. Focusing on the intersection of poverty, violence, and race, she demonstrates the differential treatment that Black and White women face in their entanglements with the welfare bureaucracy by linking those entanglements to the larger political economy of a small city, neoliberal social policies, and racialized ideas about Black women as workers and mothers.

Contents:

Three women

Regulating women's lives

Oh sister, shelter me

Ceremonies of degradation

No magic in the market : mandatory work and training programs

The theater of maternal and child-care politics

There's no place (like home)

Strategic missions

Meticulous rituals of power and structural violence.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-207) and index.

ISBN:

9780791481301

0791481301

9781429405072

1429405074

OCLC:

71849379