| Sumario: | In an analysis that is intended to contribute to the social geography of the city, the writer studies the feminization of poverty. She analyzes data that were drawn from a snowball sample of approximately 100 African- and Anglo-American women in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1989. She highlights the need for localized accounts of the feminization of poverty and therefore focuses on particular aspects of these women's daily lives, such as their racialized experiences of economic restructuring, sources of income, and household structures. In addition, she examines their participation in formal and informal local social networks, thereby revealing their division into “work-rich” and “work-poor” households. She contends that the women's everyday experiences leave the weight of poverty falling to a greater degree on African-American women, and she suggests that living in the same location can take on different meanings for racialized social groups.
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