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 women’s 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.

Introduction.- Women's Poverty Alleviation from the Perspective of Life Course.- Women's Poverty Alleviation in the Perspective of Social Space.- Typical Models of Women's Poverty Alleviation Social Work.- Practical Exploration of Women's Poverty Alleviation Social Work.- The New Era Calls for New Actions in Women's Poverty Alleviation Social Work.

Zhang Cuie is a professor in the Department of Social Work at the Huazhong Agricultural University in Hubei, China. Her main research areas include women's social work, rural sociology, rural social work, and rural social security.

Du Yunsu is an associate professor in the School of Marxism at the Yangtze University in  Hubei, China. Her main research areas include women's social work, child welfare, and rural social work.