Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty

Skillfully interweaving Bernice's own eloquent words about her harrowing abuse with descriptions of other women's similar experiences...
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Author: Jody Raphael
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Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty by Raphael, Jody

Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty

BD$64.18

Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty

BD$64.18
Author: Jody Raphael
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Skillfully interweaving Bernice's own eloquent words about her harrowing abuse with descriptions of other women's similar experiences and a rich synthesis of statistical findings, Jody Raphael demonstrates convincingly that domestic violence and dependence on public assistance are intricately linked. In a work that is sure to stir controversy, she challenges traditional views and stereotypes (conservative and liberal) about welfare recipients, arguing that many poor women are neither lazy nor paralyzed by a "culture of poverty," but instead are trapped by their batterers.

Bernice's ordeals at the hands of her abusive partner -- brutal beatings, violent rapes, threats on her life, stalking, blocked access to birth control, and sabotage of efforts to find a job -- resonate throughout the work. The experiences she relates provide crucial insights into the welfare system and illuminate its failures, successes, and potential in helping women like her.

This disquieting yet inspiring book puts a human face on the heated public policy debate over welfare reform. Above all, it is Bernice's life story and, through her voice, the story of countless other battered women who are isolated in poverty and welfare by the power and control of their abusers.



Author: Jody Raphael
Publisher: Northeastern University Press
Published: 05/18/2000
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781555534387


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2000 pg. 1816
Choice 12/01/2000 pg. 787
Library Journal 05/15/2000

About the Author

JODY RAPHAEL is Senior Research Fellow, Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center, DePaul University College of Law. Freeing Tammy is the final volume of Raphael's trilogy about women, poverty, and violence in contemporary Chicago that includes Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty (NUP, 2000) and Listening to Olivia: Violence, Poverty, and Prostitution (NUP, 2004).


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