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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Adair, Vivyan Campbell, Dahlberg, Sandra L., 1958-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.
Series:	Teaching/learning social justice.
Subjects:	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.

Table of Contents:

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.