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Author Raphael, Jody.

Title Saving Bernice : battered women, welfare, and poverty / Jody Raphael.

Imprint Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  362.82928 R181s 2000    ---  Available
Description viii, 184 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-177) and index.
Contents Getting trapped -- Trying to work -- Having babies -- Leaving -- Recovering : is there a "culture of poverty"? -- Little Billy's dilemma -- The single mother myth and the role of welfare and work -- Toward new public policy -- Violence and poverty : the causes.
Subject Abused women.
Welfare recipients -- Abuse of.
Public welfare.
Family violence.
ISBN 1555534384 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1555534392 (alk. paper)

 
    
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