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Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.

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At once an ethnographic community study and a review of the national data, there are very few books that offer such a rich and contextualized analysis of the nexus between violence and poverty. For anyone who imagines that welfare policy promotes improved economic well-being and security, opportunity, self-sufficiency, and hope for poor women and their families, this book is a wake-up call. There are not many social scientists or journalists who have embedded themselves so deeply in a particular setting like Angel House as Davis has, or who have been able to witness firsthand so many of the 'rituals of degradation' to which these women are routinely subjected. I found these parts of the book to be completely compelling and disturbing.

""At once an ethnographic community study and a review of the national data, there are very few books that offer such a rich and contextualized analysis of the nexus between violence and poverty."" ""For anyone who imagines that welfare policy promotes improved economic well-being and security, opportunity, self-sufficiency, and hope for poor women and their families, this book is a wake-up call."" ""There are not many social scientists or journalists who have embedded themselves so deeply in a particular setting like Angel House as Davis has, or who have been able to witness firsthand so many of the 'rituals of degradation' to which these women are routinely subjected. I found these parts of the book to be completely compelling and disturbing.""

There are not many social scientists or journalists who have embedded themselves so deeply in a particular setting like Angel House as Davis has, or who have been able to witness firsthand so many of the 'rituals of degradation' to which these women are routinely subjected. I found these parts of the book to be completely compelling and disturbing.

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Dana-Ain Davis is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purchase College, State University of New York.

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