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Women at the margins [electronic resource] : neglect, punishment, and resistance / Josefina Figueira-McDonough, Rosemary C. Sarri, editors.

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A compelling look at the crisis of disadvantaged women This powerful document takes a sobering look at the phenomenon of marginalized women pushed to the edges of society, holding on with the barest of hope and extraordinary bravery. Handicapped by the increasing societal inequality they face as an...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Figueira-McDonough, Josefina, Sarri, Rosemary C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Haworth, ©2002.
Series:Haworth innovations in feminist studies.
Subjects:
Women > United States.
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Women > United States > Economic conditions.
Sex discrimination against women > United States.
Women > Social conditions.
Sex discrimination against women.
Women.
Women > Economic conditions.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to art and women at the margins / Deborah Zinn
  • Increasing inequality : the ascendancy of neoconservatism and institutional exclusion of poor women / Josefina Figueira-McDonough, Rosemary C. Sarri
  • Welfare reform : tightening the screws / Joel F. Handler
  • The forgotten group : women in prisons and jails / Sheryl Pimlott, Rosemary C. Sarri
  • The storm is passing over : marginalized African-American women / Harriette Pipes McAdoo
  • The controllers and the controlled / Deborah M. Whitley, Paula L. Dressel
  • Welfare reform now that we know it : enforcing women's poverty and preventing self-sufficiency / Diana M. Pearce
  • Low-income women and housing : where will they live? / Elizabeth A. Mulroy
  • Triple jeopardy : women marginalized by substance abuse, poverty, and incarceration / Anna Celeste Burke
  • Life at the margins : older women living in poverty / Edith Elisabeth Flynn
  • Teenage pregnancy : mediating rotten outcomes and improving opportunities / Judy Walruff
  • Controlled and excluded : reproduction and motherhood among poor and imprisoned women / M.A. Bortner
  • Children and their incarcerated mothers / Wendy C. Ascione, Joyce Dixson
  • Women's recidivism and reintegration : two sides of the same coin / Patricia O'Brien, Nancy J. Harm
  • Charity, ideology, and exclusion : continuities and resistance in U.S. welfare reform / Yvonne Luna, Josefina Figueira-McDonough
  • Women, the law, and the justice system : neglect, violence, and resistance / Deborah LaBelle
  • Borders and bridges : building new directions for the women's movement / Janet L. Finn
  • Whither the twenty-first century for women at the margins : resistance and action / Rosemary C. Sarri, Josefina Figueira-McDonough.

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