Reclaiming class : women, poverty, and the promise of higher education in America /

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The double-edged impact of policy and education in the lives of poor women.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Adair, Vivyan Campbell (Editor ), Dahlberg, Sandra L., 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2003.
Colección:Teaching/learning social justice.
Temas:
Poor women > United States.
Poor women > Education (Higher) > United States.
Low-income single mothers > United States.
Welfare recipients > United States.
Women college students > United States.
Low-income single mothers.
Poor women.
Welfare recipients.
Women college students.
Femmes pauvres > États-Unis.
Femmes pauvres > Enseignement supérieur > États-Unis.
Mères de famille monoparentale à faible revenu > États-Unis.
Aide sociale > Bénéficiaires > États-Unis.
Étudiantes > États-Unis.
Mères de famille monoparentale à faible revenu.
Femmes pauvres.
Aide sociale > Bénéficiaires.
Étudiantes.
students.
EDUCATION > Higher.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Poor women > Education (Higher)
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: reclaiming class: women, poverty, and the promise of higher education in America / Vivyan C. Adair and Sandra L. Dahlberg
  • Speech pathology: the deflowering of an accent / Laura Sullivan-Hackley
  • Disciplined and punished: poor women, bodily inscription, and resistance through education / Vivyan C. Adair
  • Academic constructions of "White Trash," or how to insult poor people without really trying / Nell Sullivan
  • Survival in a not so brave new world / Sandra L. Dahlberg
  • To be young, pregnant, and black: my life as a welfare coed / Joycelyn K. Moody
  • If you want me to pull myself up, give me bootstraps / Lisa K. Waldner
  • If I survive, it will be despite welfare reform: reflections of a former welfare student / Tonya Mitchell
  • Not by myself alone: upward bound with family and friends / Deborah Megivern
  • Choosing the lesser evil: the violence of the welfare stereotype / Andrea S. Harris
  • From welfare to academe: welfare reform as college-educated welfare mothers know it / Sandy Smith Madsen
  • Seven years in exile / Leticia Almanza
  • Families first--but not in higher education: poor, independent students and the impact of financial aid / Sandra L. Dahlberg
  • Leper keepers: front-line workers and the key to education for poor women / Judith Owens-Manley
  • "That's why I'm on Prozac": battered women, traumatic stress, and education in the context of welfare reform / Lisa D. Brush
  • Fulfilling the promise of higher education / Vivyan C. Adair.

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