This timely and compelling ethnography examines the impact of welfare reform on women seeking to escape domestic violence. DC!na-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…
Author: Dana-Ain Davis · Original publisher: State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), 2006 (ISBN 978-0-7914-6843-2)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/batteredblackwom0000davi (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche C1: batteredblackwom0000davi; no hosting rights).
