Lisa D Brush
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa D Brush |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa D |
| FAMILY NAME | Brush |
| SIGNATURE | BRUSH L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Relating Collaborative Capacity to Social-Ecological Outcomes in the United States– Bridging Academic and Practitioner Perspectives
Landscape-scale collaborative conservation and stewardship are increasingly recognized by practitioners as effective in addressing complex, transboundary, and intersectional social-ecological challenges. However, the underlying dynamics of “collaborative capacity” remain incompletely expressed in the academic literature. This exploratory qualitative study contributes empirical grounding to the capacity elements, activities, and contextual aspects…
A Woman's Life Is a Human Life
Journal Article A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice Get access A Woman's Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice. By Felicia Kornbluh. (New York: Grove Press, 2023. xxvi, 404 pp. Cloth, $28.00. Paper, $20.00.) Lisa D Brush Lisa D Brush University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Searc…
Re-Envisioning Bystander Programs for Campus Sexual Violence Prevention
Authors’ Response to Commentaries on “Trouble in Paradigm”
We respond to three commentaries on our essay, “Trouble in Paradigm: ‘Gender Transformative’ Programming in Violence Prevention,” published in this symposium. Dworkin and Barker prompt us to clarify our presentation of “social norms” mechanisms that undergird paradigmatic public health violence prevention programs. Orchowski leads us to elaborate on the problems we perceive in an information-based descriptive norms approach that disregards the ge…
Trouble in Paradigm
The World Health Organization encourages a "gender transformative" paradigm for preventing violence against women and girls. Gender transformative interventions engage men and boys to reflect critically on-and then to challenge and change-gender-inequitable attitudes and behaviors. To interpret the mixed findings of research evaluating such programs, we review the "social norms" model that informs the paradigm. We bolster the paradigmatic concept…
Rescuing the Vulnerable
Women Doing Life
The Price of Protection
We know men's violence against women is costly. Yet, we know little about the costs-or benefits-of women's efforts to end it. This study investigates the temporal dynamics of women's earnings and petitioning for a Protection from Abuse (PFA) civil restraining order. Women's earnings might rise or fall at the time of petitioning but quickly return to pre-petitioning levels, a short-term boost or shock; or, petitioning might precipitate a longer-te…
They Say Cut Back, We Say Fight Back
The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State
Work, Welfare, and Protection Orders
Researchers who study violence against women often face problems when trying to understand the causes of individual changes in the context of group differences, targeted interventions, and institutional shifts. The authors explore these problems through research on the connections among women's earnings, welfare, and protection orders. The authors use multigroup, piecewise, latent growth curve models to explore differences in the initial earnings…
Guest Editor’s Introduction
Doing Without
Personal Experience Narrative and Public Debate
Personal narrative embeds the expertise of subordinated groups in stories that seldom translate into public debate. The authors describe a community writing project in which welfare recipients used personal narratives to enter into the public record their tacit and frequently discounted knowledge. The research illustrates the difficulties and possibilities “rhetorical, emotional, and material” of constructing narratives that “cross publics
Breaking the Bowls
Philosophical and Political Issues in Research on Women’s Violence and Aggression
Battering and the Poverty Trap
Structured interviews with women on welfare (n = 40) reveal the costs of taking a beating. Thirty-five percent of respondents reported having been physically abused by their current or most recent intimate partner. Compared with their peers, physically abused women earned less, worked fewer weeks, and more frequently worked part-time involuntarily. Women whose partners sabotaged their work effort experienced more hardships associated with poverty…
Effects of Work on Hitting and Hurting
Researchers have documented the ways battering can impede work and impoverish women. This project looked at abuse, work, and poverty the other way around, asking, Does women's working affect abuse or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? This article reports 162 welfare recipients' subjective assessments of the effects their working had on physical violence, work-related abuse, and PTSD symptoms. For many respondents, work aggravated abuse, in w…
Gender And The Uses Of History
Poverty, Battering, Race, and Welfare Reform
Poverty and battering trap women. Poor battered women find it especially difficult to move quickly from welfare to work and therefore to comply with the requirements of welfare reform. Interviews with the population of Black and White women enrolled at six sites of a short-term job readiness program (N = 122) revealed a significant association between battering and welfare-to-work transition. Women threatened or battered severely enough to have s…
Battering, Traumatic Stress, and Welfare-to-Work Transition
Battering and its consequences may thwart welfare recipients' transition from welfare to work, complicating welfare reform. This research examined battering and traumatic stress in the lives of 122 enrollees in a short-term job readiness program. Nearly half reported violence or serious injury in their current or most recent intimate relationship. One third reported traumatic stress symptoms. The data help assess the relative importance of potent…
States, Markets, Families
Woman Battering and Welfare Reform
This research compares employment training program staff estimates (N = 118) and enrollee reports (N = 122) of woman battering, that is, the physical violence and other abuse men deploy against their wives and girlfriends. The vast majority of staff estimate that woman battering obstructs the transition from welfare to work for at least some of their clients. Overall, staff respondents' relative sense of the frequency of battering quite accuratel…
Democracy and the Welfare State
The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on welfare? Is a capitalist (or socialist) economy consistent with the preservation of equal liberty and equal opportunity for all citizens? Why and in what w…
Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform
Breaking the Bowls
Democracy and the Welfare State
The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on welfare? Is a capitalist (or socialist) economy consistent with the preservation of equal liberty and equal opportunity for all citizens? Why and in what w…
Violent Acts and Injurious Outcomes in Married Couples
This analysis of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) confirmed earlier findings: Much of the violence between married partners occurred in couples in which both partners were reported as perpetrators, and women as well as men committed violent acts in married couples. However, the NSFH data indicated that the probabilities of injury for male and female respondents differed significantly, with wives more likely to be injured than…
Battering, Traumatic Stress, and Welfare-to-Work Transition
Battering and its consequences may thwart welfare recipients' transition from welfare to work, complicating welfare reform. This research examined battering and traumatic stress in the lives of 122 enrollees in a short-term job readiness program. Nearly half reported violence or serious injury in their current or most recent intimate relationship. One third reported traumatic stress symptoms. The data help assess the relative importance of potent…
Trouble in Paradigm
The World Health Organization encourages a "gender transformative" paradigm for preventing violence against women and girls. Gender transformative interventions engage men and boys to reflect critically on-and then to challenge and change-gender-inequitable attitudes and behaviors. To interpret the mixed findings of research evaluating such programs, we review the "social norms" model that informs the paradigm. We bolster the paradigmatic concept…
Poverty, Battering, Race, and Welfare Reform
Poverty and battering trap women. Poor battered women find it especially difficult to move quickly from welfare to work and therefore to comply with the requirements of welfare reform. Interviews with the population of Black and White women enrolled at six sites of a short-term job readiness program (N = 122) revealed a significant association between battering and welfare-to-work transition. Women threatened or battered severely enough to have s…
Philosophical and Political Issues in Research on Women’s Violence and Aggression
Personal Experience Narrative and Public Debate
Personal narrative embeds the expertise of subordinated groups in stories that seldom translate into public debate. The authors describe a community writing project in which welfare recipients used personal narratives to enter into the public record their tacit and frequently discounted knowledge. The research illustrates the difficulties and possibilities “rhetorical, emotional, and material” of constructing narratives that “cross publics
The Price of Protection
We know men's violence against women is costly. Yet, we know little about the costs-or benefits-of women's efforts to end it. This study investigates the temporal dynamics of women's earnings and petitioning for a Protection from Abuse (PFA) civil restraining order. Women's earnings might rise or fall at the time of petitioning but quickly return to pre-petitioning levels, a short-term boost or shock; or, petitioning might precipitate a longer-te…
Worthy Widows, Welfare Cheats
Single mothers spark what Nancy Fraser calls 'needs talk,' the language for translating daily life into professional practice and social policy. The author analyzes expert needs talk in 709 case vignettes, published in the United States between 1900 and 1988, in which experts turn single mothers into 'file persons,' the basic unit of bureaucratic welfare management. The author shows how expert needs talk in these sources determines single mothers…
Effects of Work on Hitting and Hurting
Researchers have documented the ways battering can impede work and impoverish women. This project looked at abuse, work, and poverty the other way around, asking, Does women's working affect abuse or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? This article reports 162 welfare recipients' subjective assessments of the effects their working had on physical violence, work-related abuse, and PTSD symptoms. For many respondents, work aggravated abuse, in w…
Love, Toil, and Trouble
Battering and the Poverty Trap
Structured interviews with women on welfare (n = 40) reveal the costs of taking a beating. Thirty-five percent of respondents reported having been physically abused by their current or most recent intimate partner. Compared with their peers, physically abused women earned less, worked fewer weeks, and more frequently worked part-time involuntarily. Women whose partners sabotaged their work effort experienced more hardships associated with poverty…
Re-Envisioning Bystander Programs for Campus Sexual Violence Prevention
Rescuing the Vulnerable
Work, Welfare, and Protection Orders
Researchers who study violence against women often face problems when trying to understand the causes of individual changes in the context of group differences, targeted interventions, and institutional shifts. The authors explore these problems through research on the connections among women's earnings, welfare, and protection orders. The authors use multigroup, piecewise, latent growth curve models to explore differences in the initial earnings…
Doing Without
Democratic Socialism in Britain and Sweden
Democratic Socialism in Britain and Sweden
Violent Acts and Injurious Outcomes in Married Couples
This analysis of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) confirmed earlier findings: Much of the violence between married partners occurred in couples in which both partners were reported as perpetrators, and women as well as men committed violent acts in married couples. However, the NSFH data indicated that the probabilities of injury for male and female respondents differed significantly, with wives more likely to be injured than…
Women and Social Welfare
Endless Crusade
Shulamit Reinharz — Feminist Methods in Social Research
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
The Curious Courtship of Feminist Jurisprudence and Feminist State Theory
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The Curious Courtship of Feminist Jurisprudence and Feminist State Theory
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Poor and Pregnant in Paris
And Sin No More
Journal Article Ana Sin No More: Social Policy and Unwed Mothers in Cleveland, 1855–1990. By Marian J. Morton. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1993. xiv, 183 pp. $39.50, ISBN 0-81420602-6.) Get access Lisa D. Brush Lisa D. Brush Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 2, September 1994, Pages 704–705, https://doi.org/1…
Love, Toil, and Trouble
Federal Policymaking and the Poor
Do federal, state, and local governments differ in their responsiveness to the needs of the poorer citizens? Are policy outcomes different when federal officials have greater influence regarding the use of federal programme funds? To answer such questions, Michael Rich examines to what extent benefits of federal programmes actually reach needy people, focusing on the relationship between federal decision-making systems and the distributional impa…
Harm, Moralism, and the Struggle for the Soul of Feminism
Contemporary feminist strategies to stop violence against women have revealed a profound conflict of interest among women. Feminists have mobilized moral outrage, built institutions to protect and nurture women, and demanded resources for policing and healing by drawing attention to the harms caused by violence against women. However, many women, especially young, heterosexual women, are alienated by a discourse of victimization that reflects nei…
The Wages of Motherhood
Worthy Widows, Welfare Cheats
Single mothers spark what Nancy Fraser calls 'needs talk,' the language for translating daily life into professional practice and social policy. The author analyzes expert needs talk in 709 case vignettes, published in the United States between 1900 and 1988, in which experts turn single mothers into 'file persons,' the basic unit of bureaucratic welfare management. The author shows how expert needs talk in these sources determines single mothers…
Democracy and the Welfare State
The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on welfare? Is a capitalist (or socialist) economy consistent with the preservation of equal liberty and equal opportunity for all citizens? Why and in what w…
Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform
Woman Battering and Welfare Reform
This research compares employment training program staff estimates (N = 118) and enrollee reports (N = 122) of woman battering, that is, the physical violence and other abuse men deploy against their wives and girlfriends. The vast majority of staff estimate that woman battering obstructs the transition from welfare to work for at least some of their clients. Overall, staff respondents' relative sense of the frequency of battering quite accuratel…
Battering, Traumatic Stress, and Welfare-to-Work Transition
Battering and its consequences may thwart welfare recipients' transition from welfare to work, complicating welfare reform. This research examined battering and traumatic stress in the lives of 122 enrollees in a short-term job readiness program. Nearly half reported violence or serious injury in their current or most recent intimate relationship. One third reported traumatic stress symptoms. The data help assess the relative importance of potent…
States, Markets, Families
Poverty, Battering, Race, and Welfare Reform
Poverty and battering trap women. Poor battered women find it especially difficult to move quickly from welfare to work and therefore to comply with the requirements of welfare reform. Interviews with the population of Black and White women enrolled at six sites of a short-term job readiness program (N = 122) revealed a significant association between battering and welfare-to-work transition. Women threatened or battered severely enough to have s…
Effects of Work on Hitting and Hurting
Researchers have documented the ways battering can impede work and impoverish women. This project looked at abuse, work, and poverty the other way around, asking, Does women's working affect abuse or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? This article reports 162 welfare recipients' subjective assessments of the effects their working had on physical violence, work-related abuse, and PTSD symptoms. For many respondents, work aggravated abuse, in w…
Gender And The Uses Of History
Battering and the Poverty Trap
Structured interviews with women on welfare (n = 40) reveal the costs of taking a beating. Thirty-five percent of respondents reported having been physically abused by their current or most recent intimate partner. Compared with their peers, physically abused women earned less, worked fewer weeks, and more frequently worked part-time involuntarily. Women whose partners sabotaged their work effort experienced more hardships associated with poverty…
Philosophical and Political Issues in Research on Women’s Violence and Aggression
Personal Experience Narrative and Public Debate
Personal narrative embeds the expertise of subordinated groups in stories that seldom translate into public debate. The authors describe a community writing project in which welfare recipients used personal narratives to enter into the public record their tacit and frequently discounted knowledge. The research illustrates the difficulties and possibilities “rhetorical, emotional, and material” of constructing narratives that “cross publics
Political science (33 works) · Sociology (27 works) · Law (23 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Welfare (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (9 works)