Welfare Indignities: Homeless Women,Domestic Violence,and Welfare Reform in San Francisco |
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Authors: | Anne R Roschelle |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, State University of New York, I Hawk Drive, Jacobson Faculty Tower, 516 A, New Paltz, NY 12561, USA |
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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.
Anne R. Roschelle
is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Her research
and teaching interests include family poverty, racial ethnic minorities, gender inequality, ethnography, and welfare reform. |
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Keywords: | Homeless families Welfare reform Domestic violence |
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