04116nam 22007214a 450 991082449080332120200520144314.01-282-04767-11-59213-841-1(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)99100000000072495120020919d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReclaiming class women, poverty, and the promise of higher education in America /edited by Vivyan C. Adair and Sandra L. Dahlberg1st ed.Philadelphia Temple University Press20031 online resource (281 p.)Teaching/learning social justiceDescription based upon print version of record.1-59213-021-6 Includes bibliographical references.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 justice.Poor womenUnited StatesPoor womenEducation (Higher)United StatesLow-income single mothersUnited StatesWelfare recipientsUnited StatesWomen college studentsUnited StatesPoor womenPoor womenEducation (Higher)Low-income single mothersWelfare recipientsWomen college students378.1/9826/942Adair Vivyan Campbell1756552Dahlberg Sandra L.1958-1756553MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824490803321Reclaiming class4193882UNINA