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Author Davis, Dana-Ain, 1958-

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

Imprint Albany : State University of New York Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  362.5568082 D291b 2006    ---  Available
Description xiv, 215 p. ; 24 cm.
Series SUNY series in African American studies
SUNY series in African American studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-207) and index.
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.
Subject Abused women -- United States.
Welfare recipients -- United States.
African American women.
Public welfare -- United States.
ISBN 0791468445 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0791468437 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780791468432 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780791468449 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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