Sheila M. Katz, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies affiliated faculty. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Vanderbilt and B.A. in Sociology and Women’s Studies from the University of Georgia. She uses qualitative research to understand women’s poverty and experiences in domestic violence, accessing health and human services, activism, and education. As a scholar activist, her work is applied, feminist, and intersectional. Her first book, Reformed American Dreams: Welfare Mothers, Higher Education, and Activism, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2019.
Prof Dr. Sheila Katz
Trapped by Poverty: Low-Income Women’s Abortion Access in the U.S. South Pre and Post-Dobbs Decision
Sociology Department, University of Houston, United States
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