ABSTRACT
He beat me so bad I lost the pregnancy. Just pounded on me. I think he wanted to kill me. . . . When I was at home, I was raising his daughter, and he could control me. But [when I worked] out in the real world, he got even more possessive. He would leave his job to check up on me. . . . He was possessive, abusive, and didn’t want me to work. Just an all-American guy. (Subject 23: white, divorced, age 35; emphasis in original)
PARADOXES OF “SELF-SUFFICIENCY” RHETORIC
The welfare cuts of the past sixteen years are rooted in part in the neoliberal assumptions of exchange theory: Employment is proof of
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