Contemporary Social Issues: Women and Poverty: Psychology, Public Policy, and Social Justice (Paperback)

Bullock shines the light of her clear and bold analyses on such issues as discrimination, unpaid labor for motherhood and caregiving, labor market wage disparities, unaffordable housing, and violence. She examines the relationship between negative attitudes and beliefs about poor women and demeaning social policies. A ?must? for social and community psychologists, clinical and educational psychologists, and all other professionals and students who take seriously the mission of advancing human health and welfare. ? Dr Bernice Lott, Department of Psychology, The University of Rhode Island With her book Women and Poverty , Heather Bullock continues her groundbreaking illumination of poverty and classism from a psychological perspective. Bringing her focus to the gendered construction of poverty, Bullock's compelling examination manages to be both expansive and particular ? it encompasses the broad sociocultural trends and biases that perpetuate women's poverty, but also renders comprehensible the fluctuations and implications of recent welfare policies. Scholarly, passionate, and forceful, this book is a must-have resource for psychologists, educators, social service professionals, and policy-makers whose work interfaces with issues of social class and social justice. ? Professor Laura Smith, Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology , Teachers College, Columbia University In a time of obscene economic inequality, Heather Bullock's Women and Poverty: Psychology, Public Policy and Social Justice is essential reading. Scholarly and passionate, this book reveals the ways in which poverty is gendered, illuminates the costs of poverty to women and to our entire society, and gives us the tools to challenge class bias and advance just social policies. ? Professor Deborah Belle, Department of Psychology, Boston University