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Women at the Margins : Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance by J. Dianne Garner, Rosemary Sarri, Josefina Figueira-Mcdonough, Josefina Figueira-McDonough, Rosemary C. Sarri is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A compelling look at the crisis of disadvantaged women This powerful document takes a sobering look at the phenomenon of marginalized women pushed to the edges of society, holding on with the barest of hope and extraordinary bravery. Handicapped by the increasing societal inequality they face as an everyday fact of life, these women (and in many cases, their children) have been disconnected from the mainstream for reasons of age, race, gender, health, incarceration, domestic abuse, unwanted pregnancy, unemployment, and economic circumstance. They are poor in an affluent society, powerless in a powerful nation, and the suffering caused by their exclusion is poignant and troubling. Eloquently illustrated with poetry, art, and prose created by marginalized women, Women at the Margins: Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance makes a compelling argument for social change. The book offers a no-holds-barred look at how economic restructuring, welfare reform, neo-conservative ideology, and institutional exclusion have locked women into subservient, substandard roles, stripping them of their citizenship and rendering them expendable. Diverse authors track the life cycle of marginalized women, f

Who reads Women at the Margins : Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance?

Author

J. Dianne Garner, Rosemary Sarri, Josefina Figueira-Mcdonough, Josefina Figueira-McDonough, Rosemary C. Sarri

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136578380

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Sociology, Science