TY  - SER
AU  - Josephson, Jyl
TI  - The intersectionality of domestic violence and welfare in the lives of poor women
PY  - 2002///
KW  - SOCIAL SERVICES
KW  - GENDER
KW  - SOCIAL POLICY
KW  - POVERTY
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - UNITED STATES
N1  - Journal of Poverty, 2002, 6(1): 1-20
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J134v06n01_01
ER  -