Women, Work, and Poverty presents the latest information on women living at or below the poverty level and the changes that need to be made in public policy to allow them to rise above their economic hardships. Using a wide range of research methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, small-scale surveys, and analysis of personnel records, the book explores different aspects of women's poverty since the passage of the 1986 welfare reform bill. Anthropologists, economists, political scientists, sociologists, and social workers examine marriage, divorce, children and child care, employment and work schedules, disabilities, mental health, and education, and look at income support programs, such as welfare and unemployment insurance.
Autorentext
Hartmann, Heidi I.
Zusammenfassung
How will sport keep pace with current scientific and biological advances?Is the possibility of the 'bionic athlete' that far away and is this notion as bad as it might first appear?Is our fascination with sport winners fascistoid? Questions such as these and many others are posed and examined by the contributors to this volume. Some are sceptical of future developments in sport and demand radical reforms to halt progress, others are more optimistic and propose that sport should adapt to new advances just as other realms of the cultural sphere have to.Some of the topics examined here, such as the genetic engineering of athletes, and the significance of the public's fascination with sport winners, are being discussed for the first time, whilst others such as sex segregation, nationalism and doping are being revisited and reintroduced onto the agenda after a period of suggestive silence.This book provides the reader with a deep insight into the moral and ethical value we place on sport in today's society. Challenging and demanding, its contributors urge us to think again about current sports practices and the future of sport as a cultural phenomenon.
Inhalt
- Introduction (Heidi Hartmann)
- MARRIAGE, WORK, POVERTY, AND CHILDREN
- The Changing Impact of Marriage, Motherhood and Work on Women's Poverty (Hilarie Lieb and Susan Thistle)
- Anti-Discrimination vs. Anti-Poverty? A Comparison of Pay Equity and Living Wage Reforms (Pamela Stone and Arielle Kuperberg)
- Getting Beyond the Training vs. Work Experience Debate: The Role of Labor Markets, Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and Community Resources in Long-Term Poverty (Jo Anne Schneider)
- Welfare Status and Child Care as Obstacles to Full-Time Work for Low-Income Mothers (Julie Press, Janice Johnson-Dias, and Jay Fagan)
- Challenges Faced by Women with Disabilities Under TANF (Mary Kay Schleiter, Anne Statham, and Teresa Reinders)
- The Work-Family Time Binds of Low-Income Mothers: Nurse Aides Struggle to Care (Peggy Kahn)
- ADVANCING WOMEN OF COLOR
- When the Spirit Blooms: Acquiring Higher Education in the Context of Welfare Reform (Avis A. Jones-DeWeever)
- Policy Implications of Supporting Women of Color in the Sciences (Angela Johnson)
- The Production of the Female Entrepreneurial Subject: A Space of Exclusion for
Women of Color? (Mélanie Knight)
- INCOME AND INCOME SECURITY
- The Ability of Women to Repay Debt After Divorce (Jonathan Fisher and Angela Lyons)
- Women's Job Loss and Material Hardship (Vicky Lovell and Gi-Taik Oh)
- Who Gets What? Gender Differences in Spendable Income (Tamara Ohler and Nancy Folbre)
- About the Contributors
- Index
- Reference Notes Included