Title: Reclaiming class : women, poverty, and the promise of higher education in America /
Authors: Adair, Vivyan Campbell; Dahlberg, Sandra L., 1958-
Publisher: Temple University Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Low-income single mothers United States.; Poor women United States; Poor women Education (Higher) United States.; Welfare recipients United States.; Women college students United States.
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.