Women in the American Welfare Trap
Women in the American Welfare TrapCatherine KingfisherIn the United States, a majority of the poor and those who work with the poor are women. Recipients of public assistance and the welfare workers who serve them are both trapped at the bottom of the American welfare system. How do they perceive their place in society? How do they assess their self-worth in the hierarchy of a bureaucratic system? In this ethnographic study of a welfare office and two welfare rights groups, Catherine Pelissier Kingfisher addresses these issues in a thought-provoking analysis, based on the women's conversations with each other. Women in the American Welfare Tr…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-1515-1
- EAN: 9780812215151
- Produktnummer: 1519656
- Verlag: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.4 cm 367 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 367
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
Über den Autor
Catherine Kingfisher is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Lethbridge. She is editor of Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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