Social Work for Women Poverty-Alleviation

This book comprehensively applies social gender theory, life course theory, and spatiotemporal sociology theory to explore social work actions for poverty alleviation among women based on empirical investigations and social work practice. Taking impoverished women as the research object, this book analyzes the characteristics and difficulties of women's poverty and poverty alleviation from the vertical dimension of life course as well as from the horizontal dimension of social space Meanwhile, taking impoverished women as the service object, it systematically sorts out the main modes of social work for womens poverty alleviation, presents classified cases of social work for poverty reduction targeting rural women in different life stages, and summarizes the main problems in the practice of social work for poverty alleviation.