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Summary:

This text presents findings from research on the intersection of poverty and men's coercive control of their wives and girlfriends. It articulates a progressive feminist human rights-based alternative to the conventional contention that policy should respond to poverty and abuse by reforming women's character through employment.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Conventional wisdom and its discontents
• What happens when abusers follow women to work?
• Calculating the costs of taking a beating
• Welfare recipients talk back
• Conclusions.

Author/Creator:

Brush, Lisa Diane

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Poverty, battered women, and work in U.S. public policy [by Brush, L.D.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Poverty, battered women, and work in U.S. public policy [by Brush, L.D.] (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2011 — ISBN 9780195398502; ISBN 0195398505; LCCN 2011012597; OCLC Number 712780785)

Related Series:

Interpersonal violence

Subjects:

Abused women — United States

Man-woman relationships — United States

Welfare recipients — Employment — United States

Abused women

Man-woman relationships

Welfare recipients — Employment

Welfare recipients

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-163) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 197 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HV6626.2 .B78 2011eb

ISBNs:

9780199897483 (electronic bk.)
0199897484 (electronic bk.)
9780195398502 (hbk.) [Invalid]
0195398505 (hbk.) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

741128584