Poverty in the United States

Women and Poverty in the United States.- Qualitative Methodological Approach.- The Intersection of Women's Health and Poverty.- Food Insecurity Experienced by Women Living in Poverty.- Poverty, Personal Experiences of Violence, and Mental Health: Understanding Their Complex Intersections among Low-income Women.- Substance Use among Women in Poverty.- The Role of Social Support for Women Living in Poverty.- Partner Concurrency and Relationship Dynamics.- The Logic of Exchange Sex among Women Living in Poverty.- Physical Safety and Neighborhood Issues.- Housing and Health:  Exploring the Complex Intersections between Housing Environments and Health Behaviors among Women Living in Poverty.- Descriptions of Gun Violence.- Afterword: Policy and Human Rights Implications of Women's Poverty and Vulnerability in the United States.

Ann O'Leary is a psychologist living in Atlanta, Georgia. She served as a Senior Behavioral Scientist in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for 16 years. Her training included a summa cum laude undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania; a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University, supported by a National Science Foundation fellowship; and one year of postdoctoral training in Health Psychology at the University of California at San Francisco. She served on the faculty of the Psychology Department at Rutgers University from 1986 to 1999. She has conducted research on HIV prevention for the past 26 years, and has also published many articles on other aspects of Health Psychology. Dr. O'Leary has published more than 165 scientific articles and chapters, and has edited or co-edited five books, Women at Risk: Issues in the Prevention of AIDS; Women and AIDS: Coping and Care; Beyond Condoms: Alternative Approaches to HIV Prevention; From Child Sexual Abuse to Adult Sexual Risk: Trauma, Revictimization and Intervention; and African Americans and AIDS: Understanding and Addressing the Epidemic. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and won the inaugural "Distinguished Leader" award from the APA's Committee on Psychology and AIDS. She serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, and is a frequent consultant to NIH and other scientific organizations. Paula Frew, PhD, MA, MPH, is currently Assistant Professor of Medicine within the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine and she holds a secondary appointment at the same rank within the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at the Emory Rollins School of Public Health. She currently serves as the Director of Health Communication and Applied Community Research at The Hope Clinic of the Emory Vaccine Research Center, Emory University School of Medicine. She is an