The intersectionality of domestic violence and welfare in the lives of poor women
Josephson, Jyl
The intersectionality of domestic violence and welfare in the lives of poor women Jyl Josephson - 2002 - Journal of Poverty .
Journal of Poverty, 2002, 6(1): 1-20
The U.S. social welfare system has a long history of engaging in gendered and racialized social control of service recipients.This paper explores the utility of an approach to examining the interaction of such categories as race, class, and gender developed by African-American feminist scholars—the use of the heuristic concept of “intersectionality” — and applies the approach to one aspect of contemporary social policy in the United States: the domestic violence provisions of the 1996 federal welfare law. The paper discusses the evidence regarding the relationship between domestic violence and welfare receipt and analyzes the interaction between state, social, and individual partner's efforts to control women receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). (Author's abstract). Record #3945
SOCIAL SERVICES
GENDER
SOCIAL POLICY
POVERTY
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
UNITED STATES
The intersectionality of domestic violence and welfare in the lives of poor women Jyl Josephson - 2002 - Journal of Poverty .
Journal of Poverty, 2002, 6(1): 1-20
The U.S. social welfare system has a long history of engaging in gendered and racialized social control of service recipients.This paper explores the utility of an approach to examining the interaction of such categories as race, class, and gender developed by African-American feminist scholars—the use of the heuristic concept of “intersectionality” — and applies the approach to one aspect of contemporary social policy in the United States: the domestic violence provisions of the 1996 federal welfare law. The paper discusses the evidence regarding the relationship between domestic violence and welfare receipt and analyzes the interaction between state, social, and individual partner's efforts to control women receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). (Author's abstract). Record #3945
SOCIAL SERVICES
GENDER
SOCIAL POLICY
POVERTY
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
UNITED STATES