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Welfare Indignities: Homeless Women, Domestic Violence, and Welfare Reform in San Francisco.
- Source :
- Gender Issues; Sep2008, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p193-209, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Using data collected during a 4 year ethnography, this paper examines how the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) has impacted homeless women in San Francisco who are also victims of domestic violence. Specifically this paper looks at how the behavior of abusive men prevents homeless women from successfully navigating the new welfare-to-work requirements and maintaining stable employment. Findings indicate that despite the discourse touting the success of welfare reform, the 1996 PRWORA has further disenfranchised an already devastated population systematically forcing them further onto the margins of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HOMELESS women
ABUSED women
DOMESTIC violence
PUBLIC welfare
ABUSIVE men
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1098092X
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Gender Issues
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 34684690
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s12147-008-9061-9