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In the field of intersectionality, much of the research focuses on the analysis of race, class and gender as marginalizing factors. These factors are seen at in institutionalized ways and many analyses seek to demonstrate how welfare reform policies do not address these fundamental inequalities. It is noted that women can suffer from a double bind due to welfare reforms. The lasting effects of racism and the lack of attention paid to gender inequalities (ie. “family gap”) in women’s employment income, leaves an inherent vulnerability to the perpetuation of discrimination in employment, income, and family violence (Lindhorst and Mancoske, 2003).
Research over the past ten years has documented the disproportionate impact of domestic violence on low-income families, which demonstrates that domestic violence can interfere in women’s ability to comply with welfare policy requirements, affect their work participation, and serve as a significant barrier to their economic advancement. Recent ethnographic work suggests that because neoliberal policies ignore the social and family networks in which low-income women are embedded and the economic realities that bind them, policies intended to foster self-sufficiency (e.g., work requirements) and/or promote private rather than state dependency for low-income women (e.g., marriage promotion) may become instead sources of increased marginalization and vulnerability to abuse (Purvin, 2007). Aboriginal women suffer death rates twice as high as any other group of women in this country due to domestic violence. Some scholars assert that it has been through sexual violence and through the imposition of European gender relationships on Native communities that Europeans were able to colonize Native...

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