Poverty, battered women, and work in U.S. public policy [electronic resource] / Lisa D. Brush. Brush, Lisa Diane. Abused women United States. Man-woman relationships United States. Welfare recipients Employment United States. HV6626.2 362.82925610973 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. This text presents findings from research on the intersection of poverty and men's coercive control of their wives and girlfriends. It articulates a progressive feminist human rights-based alternative to the conventional contention that policy should respond to poverty and abuse by reforming women's character through employment. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource (viii, 197 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398502.001.0001 eng Interpersonal violence Interpersonal violence. United States. United States. United States.