Shut Out
Subtitle: Low Income Mothers and Higher Education in Post-Welfare America
Contributors: Valerie Polakow (Editor); Sandra S. Butler (Editor); Luisa Stormer Deprez (Editor); Peggy Kahn (Editor)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: July 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780791461266
Subjects: Family welfare; Higher & further education; Poverty; 21st century; c 1990 to c 2000; Higher; Education (Higher); Welfare recipients; Social Science; Education / Teaching; Sociology; USA; Mothers; Educational Policy & Reform; Women's Studies - General; United States; Poor women
Description: "Shut Out portrays the economic, educational, and existential struggles that single mothers confront as they fight back against a welfare-to-work regime that denies access to higher education and obstructs their aspirations as autonomous women, determined to exit poverty and attain family self-sufficiency. The book is a blend of policy analysis and lived realities. The voices of student mothers fighting to stay in school, and organizing for a different future, are embedded in an analysis grounded in the educational experiences of women in poverty across the states. Harsh and punitive public policies that are designed to keep poor women trapped in low wage work are juxtaposed against the actions of those who, together with their allies, have resisted - inspired by a vision of a different world made possible by higher education."--BOOK JACKET.