Welfare Reform Now That We Know It: Enforcing Women’s Poverty and Preventing Self-Sufficiency

Women at the Margins: Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 125-148

  Pearce, Diana M ^a  

^a School of Medicine   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203057681-17     Document Type: Chapter

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