Summary
The papers in this collection examine the lives of marginalized and incarcerated women, pushed to the edges of society for reasons of age, race, gender, health, incarceration, domestic abuse, unwanted pregnancy, unemployment, and economic circumstance.
Contents
1. Increasing inequality: the ascendancy of neo-conservatism and institutional exclusion of poor women / Josefina Figueira-McDonough & Rosemary Sarri.
I. Increasing the Dual Control of Women and Distorting Their Strength. – 2. Welfare reform: tightening the screws / Joel E. Handler. – 3. The forgotten group: women in prisons and jails / Sheryl Pimlott & Rosemary C. Sarri. – 4. The storm is passing over: marginalized African-American women / Harriette Pipes McAdoo.
II. Blockages to Autonomy. – 5. The controllers and the controlled / Deborah M. Whitley & Paula L. Dressel. – 6. Welfare reform now that we know it: enforcing women’s poverty and preventing self-sufficiency / Diana M. Pearce. – 7. Low-income women and housing: where will they live? / Elizabeth A. Mulroy.
III. Gender, Age, and Health Interactions. – 8. Triple jeopardy: women marginalized by substance abuse, poverty, and incarceration / Anna Celeste Burke. – 9. Life at the margins: older women living in poverty / Edith Elizabeth Flynn. – 10. Teenage pregnancy: mediating rotten outcomes and improving opportunities / Judy Walruff.
IV. Bad Women, Undeserving Mothers. – 11. Controlled and excluded: reproduction and motherhood among poor and imprisoned women / M. A. Bortner. – 12. Children and their incarcerated mothers / Wendy C. Ascione & Joyce Dixson. – 13. Women’s recidivism and reintegration: two sides of the same coin / Patricia O’Brien & Nancy J. Harm.
V. Pragmatic Knowledge, Legal Redressing, and Women’s Solidarity. – 14. Charity, ideology, and exclusion: continuities and resistance in U.S. welfare reform / Yvonne Luna & Josefina Figueira-McDonough. – 15. Women, the law, and the justice system: neglect, violence, and resistance / Deborah LaBelle. – 16. Borders and bridges: building new directions for the women’s movement / Janet L. Finn.
VI. Action Strategies for Today. – 17. Whither the twenty-first century for women at the margins: resistance and action / Rosemary C. Sarri & Josefina Figueira-McDonough.