LEADER 04361nam 22008053u 450 001 9910782816103321 005 20230721005459.0 010 $a1-282-04767-1 010 $a1-59213-841-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000724951 035 $a(EBL)432865 035 $a(OCoLC)320621961 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000640418 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12205352 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000640418 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10611732 035 $a(PQKB)11219846 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000233872 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218802 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000233872 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10236963 035 $a(PQKB)11642731 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432865 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000724951 100 $a20131216d2009|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReclaiming Class$b[electronic resource] $eWomen, Poverty, And The Promise 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 1 $aTeaching/Learning Social Justi 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-59213-021-6 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a6 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 327 $a13 ""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 330 $aReclaiming Class offers essays written by women who changed their lives through the pathway of higher education. Collected, they offer a powerful testimony of the importance of higher learning, as well as a critique of the programs designed to alleviate poverty and educational disparity. The contributors explore the ideologies of welfare and American meritocracy that promise hope and autonomy on the one hand, while also perpetuating economic obstacles and indebtedness on the other. Divided into the three sections, Reclaiming Class assesses the psychological, familial, and ec 410 0$aTeaching/Learning Social Justi 606 $aLow-income single mothers - United States 606 $aPoor single mothers 606 $aPoor women - Education (Higher) - United States 606 $aPoor women - United States 606 $aPoor women 606 $aWelfare recipients 606 $aWelfare recipients - United States 606 $aWomen college students 606 $aWomen college students - United States 615 4$aLow-income single mothers - United States. 615 4$aPoor single mothers. 615 4$aPoor women - Education (Higher) - United States. 615 4$aPoor women - United States. 615 4$aPoor women. 615 4$aWelfare recipients. 615 4$aWelfare recipients - United States. 615 4$aWomen college students. 615 4$aWomen college students - United States. 676 $a378.1/9826/942 676 $a378.19826942 700 $aAdair$b Vivyan$01565423 701 $aDahlberg$b Sandra$01565424 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782816103321 996 $aReclaiming Class$93835096 997 $aUNINA