1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990003336030203316

Autore

HENLEY, Ernest J.

Titolo

Graph theory in modern engineering : computer aided design, control, optimization, reliability analysis / Ernest J. Henley and R. A. Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York [Academic Press], 1973

Descrizione fisica

XVI, 303 p. ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Mathematics in science and engineering ; 98

Altri autori (Persone)

WILLIAMS, R. A.

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Matematica

Collocazione

510 MSE (98)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200042062

Autore

Haller, Carl Ludwig von

Titolo

Staat und katholische Kirche in Preussen / Carl Ludwig von Bar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aalen, : Scientia Verlag, 1971

Edizione

[Neudruck der Ausgabe Berlin 1883]

Descrizione fisica

IV, 130 p. ; 21 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967382003321

Titolo

Reclaiming class : women, poverty, and the promise of higher education in America / / edited by Vivyan C. Adair and Sandra L. Dahlberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2003

ISBN

9781282047679

1282047671

9781592138418

1592138411

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Teaching/learning social justice

Altri autori (Persone)

AdairVivyan Campbell

DahlbergSandra L. <1958->

Disciplina

378.1/9826/942

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America; Speech Pathology: The Deflowering of an Accent; 1. EDUCATORS REMEMBER; 1 Disciplined and Punished: Poor Women, Bodily Inscription, and Resistance through Education; 2 Academic Constructions of ""White Trash,"" or How to Insult Poor People without Really Trying; 3 Survival in a Not So Brave New World; 4 To Be Young, Pregnant, and Black: My Life as a Welfare Coed; 5 If You Want Me to Pull Myself Up, Give Me Bootstraps; II. ON THE FRONT LINES

6 lf I Survive, It Will Be Despite Welfare Reform: Reflections of a Former Welfare Student7 Not By Myself Alone: Upward Bound with Family and Friends; 8 Choosing the Lesser Evil: The Violence of the Welfare Stereotype; 9 From Welfare to Academe: Welfare Reform as College-Educated Welfare Mothers Know It; 10 Seven Years in Exile; III. POLICY, RESEARCH, AND POOR WOMEN; 11 Families First-but Not in Higher Education: Poor, Independent Students and the Impact of Financial Aid; 12 The Leper Keepers: Front-Line Workers and the Key to Education for Poor Women

13 ""That's Why I'm on Prozac"": Battered Women, Traumatic Stress, and Education in the Context of Welfare Reform14 Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Reclaiming Class offers essays written by women who changed their lives through the pathway of higher education. Collected, they offer a powerful testimony of the importance of higher learning, as well as a critique of the programs designed to alleviate poverty and educational disparity. The contributors explore the ideologies of welfare and American meritocracy that promise hope and autonomy on the one hand, while also perpetuating economic obstacles and indebtedness on the other. Divided into the three sections, Reclaiming Class assesses the psychological, familial, and ec