04361nam 22008053u 450 991078281610332120230721005459.01-282-04767-11-59213-841-1(CKB)1000000000724951(EBL)432865(OCoLC)320621961(SSID)ssj0000640418(PQKBManifestationID)12205352(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640418(PQKBWorkID)10611732(PQKB)11219846(SSID)ssj0000233872(PQKBManifestationID)11218802(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233872(PQKBWorkID)10236963(PQKB)11642731(MiAaPQ)EBC432865(EXLCZ)99100000000072495120131216d2009|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrReclaiming Class[electronic resource] Women, Poverty, And The PromisePhiladelphia Temple University Press20091 online resource (281 p.)Teaching/Learning Social JustiDescription based upon print version of record.1-59213-021-6 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 LINES6 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 Women13 ""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 ContributorsReclaiming 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 ecTeaching/Learning Social JustiLow-income single mothers - United StatesPoor single mothersPoor women - Education (Higher) - United StatesPoor women - United StatesPoor womenWelfare recipientsWelfare recipients - United StatesWomen college studentsWomen college students - United StatesLow-income single mothers - United States.Poor single mothers.Poor women - Education (Higher) - United States.Poor women - United States.Poor women.Welfare recipients.Welfare recipients - United States.Women college students.Women college students - United States.378.1/9826/942378.19826942Adair Vivyan1565423Dahlberg Sandra1565424AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910782816103321Reclaiming Class3835096UNINA