01520nam a2200325 a 4500 EDZ0000038751 StDuBDS 20150804193925.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110826s2011 nyua fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780199897483 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS HV6626.2 362.82925610973 23 Brush, Lisa Diane. Poverty, battered women, and work in U.S. public policy [electronic resource] / Lisa D. Brush. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 1 online resource (viii, 197 p.) : ill. Interpersonal violence 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. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Abused women United States. Man-woman relationships United States. Welfare recipients Employment United States. Print version 9780195398502 Interpersonal violence. Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398502.001.0001 36902 36902