Reclaiming Class,9781592130214

Reclaiming Class

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ISBN13: 9781592130214
ISBN10: 1592130216
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-04-01
Publisher(s): Temple Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America 1(20)
Vivyan C. Adair
Sandra L. Dahlberg
Speech Pathology: The Deflowering of an Accent 21(4)
Laura Sullivan-Hackley
I. Educators Remember
Disciplined and Punished: Poor Women, Bodily Inscription, and Resistance through Education
25(28)
Vivyan C. Adair
Academic Constructions of ``White Trash,'' or How to Insult Poor People without Really Trying
53(14)
Nell Sullivan
Survival in a Not So Brave New World
67(18)
Sandra L. Dahlberg
To Be Young, Pregnant, and Black: My Life as a Welfare Coed
85(12)
Joycelyn K. Moody
If You Want Me to Pull Myself Up, Give Me Bootstraps
97(16)
Lisa K. Waldner
II. On the Front Lines
If I Survive, It Will Be Despite Welfare Reform: Reflections of a Former Welfare Student
113(6)
Tonya Mitchell
Not By Myself Alone: Upward Bound with Family and Friends
119(12)
Deborah Megivern
Choosing the Lesser Evil: The Violence of the Welfare Stereotype
131(8)
Andrea S. Harris
From Welfare to Academe: Welfare Reform as College-Educated Welfare Mothers Know It
139(18)
Sandy Smith Madsen
Seven Years in Exile
157(12)
Leticia Almanza
III. Policy, Research, and Poor Women
Families First---but Not in Higher Education: Poor, Independent Students and the Impact of Financial Aid
169(27)
Sandra L. Dahlberg
The Leper Keepers: Front-Line Workers and the Key to Education for Poor Women
196(19)
Judith Owens-Manley
``That's Why I'm on Prozac'': Battered Women, Traumatic Stress, and Education in the Context of Welfare Reform
215(25)
Lisa D. Brush
Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education
240(27)
Vivyan C. Adair
About the Contributors 267

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