"If you sit and cry no one will Help you": Understanding Perceptions of Worthiness and Social Support Relations among Low-Income Women under a Neoliberal Discourse

Sociological Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 374-393

  Lavee, Einat ^a   Offer, Shira ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 84862328392     PISSN: 00380253     EISSN: 15338525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2012.01240.x     Document Type: Article

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