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  • Hard Knocksby Janice Haaken

    Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 26.95

    Shows how cultural contexts shape how stories about domestic abuse get told, and offers tools for bringing psychology into discussions of group dynamics in the domestic violence field. This book explores the contentious issue of how to acknowledge forms of female aggression while still preserving a gender analysis of intimate partner violence. more...

  • Moving Up And Outby Lori Holyfield

    Temple University Press 2010; US$ 26.95

    Single parent families in the United States have almost tripled in the past few decades. A huge majority of these families are female headed. In American culture it is not so important that we all be equal so much as it is that we all have equal opportunities. Yet sometimes we turn a blind eye to those who need us most. In fact, when it comes to single parent families, it is as if the barriers are too great, the issues too complex. We wind up reducing the debate to its lowest common denominator. Ironically, it is the families who are most affected that get tangled in the political barbed wire and hidden behind numbing statistics. Moreover, community responses, those small grassroots organizations who care deeply and give whole-heartedly are... more...

  • Rethinking Domestic Violenceby Audrey Mullender

    Routledge 1996; US$ 65.00

    This book explodes the myths concerning domestic violence and explores how the responses of social workers and probation officers to the people involved need to be far better coordinated and more effective. more...

  • Gender, Health and Welfareby Anne Digby; John Stewart

    Routledge 1996; US$ 59.95

    Discusses how and why gender has been so important in shaping modern welfare provision. Key issues covered include: relationship between poverty, health and gender; case studies of female reformers; birth control; women in Labour movement more...

  • Is Anyone Listening?by Audrey Mullender; Gill Hague; Rosemary Aris

    Routledge 2003; US$ 57.95

    This book paints an overall picture of how domestic violence is being dealt with today and how contemporary concerns about service-user participation in improving services can be put into real and lasting effect. more...

  • Building on Women's Strengthsby K. Jean Peterson; Alice A. Lieberman

    Haworth Press 2001; US$ 49.95

    This groundbreaking book explores the ways a woman-centered worldview can transform social policy, social services, and direct practice. Updated to honor the memory of Liane V. Davis, who died in 1995, this new edition of Building on Women's Strengths offers updated information and new chapters on women who have been incarcerated, women on welfare who experience violence, and lesbian and bisexual women. It discusses the issues of women's lives, including family violence, welfare reform, mental health, child welfare, aging, racism, and being silenced. To view an excerpt online, find the book in our QuickSearch catalog at www.HaworthPress.com. more...

  • Relations of Rescueby Peggy Pascoe

    Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 55.00

    In this study of late nineteenth-century moral reform, Peggy Pascoe examines four specific cases--a home for Chinese prostitutes in San Francisco, California; a home for polygamous Mormon women in Salt Lake City, Utah; a home for unmarried mothers in Denver, Colorado; and a program for American Indians on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska--to tell the story of the women who established missionary rescue homes for women in the American West. Focusing on two sets of relationships--those between women reformers and their male opponents, and those between women reformers and the various groups of women they sought to shelter--Pascoe traces the gender relations that framed the reformers' search for female moral authority, analyzes the interaction... more...

  • Faces of Povertyby Jill Duerr Berrick

    Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 19.95

    This study aims to dispel the misconceptions and myths about welfare and the welfare population that have clouded the true picture of poverty in America. It offers insights into each of the reforms under consideration and demonstrates their implications for poor women and children. more...

  • The Politics of Public Housingby Rhonda Williams

    Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 25.00

    Black women have traditionally represented the canvas on which many debates about poverty and welfare have been drawn. For a quarter century after the publication of the notorious Moynihan report, poor black women were tarred with the same brush: "ghetto moms" or "welfare queens" living off the state, with little ambition or hope of an independent future. At the same time, the history of the civil rights movement has all too often succumbed to an idolatry that stresses the centrality of prominent leaders while overlooking those who fought daily for their survival in an often hostile urban landscape. In this collective biography, Rhonda Y. Williams takes us behind, and beyond, politically expedient labels to provide an incisive and intimate... more...

  • Gender and Social Policy in a Global Contextby Shahra Razavi; Shireen Hassim

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2006; US$ 165.00

    While there is enormous debate on the scope and values of social policy, gender has been the silent term in these debates. This book illustrates why both academic research and policy thinking need to factor-in gender hierarchies and structures if they are to address some of the key challenges of contemporary societies. more...