TY  - GEN
T1  - Women in the American welfare trap
A1  - Kingfisher, Catherine Pélissier
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44965512
AB  - 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.
OP  - 206
CN  - HV1445 .K57 1996eb
SN  - 0585120080
SN  - 9780585120089
SN  - 9780812202465
SN  - 0812202465
SN  - 0812232879
SN  - 081221515X
SN  - 9780812215151
SN  - 9780812232875
KW  - Poor women : United States.
KW  - Welfare recipients : United States.
KW  - Human services personnel : United States.
KW  - Public welfare : United States.
KW  - Aid to families with dependent children programs : United States.
KW  - Welfare rights movement : United States.
KW  - Femmes pauvres : États-Unis.
KW  - Aide sociale : Bénéficiaires : États-Unis.
KW  - Services sociaux : Personnel : États-Unis.
KW  - Aide sociale : États-Unis.
KW  - Aide sociale aux familles avec enfants à charge : États-Unis.
KW  - Défense des droits économiques et sociaux : États-Unis.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : General.
KW  - Aid to families with dependent children programs
KW  - Human services personnel
KW  - Poor women
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Welfare recipients
KW  - Welfare rights movement
KW  - United States
KW  - Sozialhilfeempfängerin
KW  - Sozialarbeiterin
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Vrouwen.
KW  - Armoede.
KW  - Sociale politiek.
KW  - Aid to families with dependent children programs : United States
KW  - Human services personnel : United States
KW  - Poor women : United States
KW  - Public welfare : United States
KW  - Welfare recipients : United States
KW  - Welfare rights movement : United States
ER  -