LEADER 04116nam 22007214a 450 001 9910824490803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $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 $a20020919d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aReclaiming class $ewomen, poverty, and the promise of higher education in America /$fedited by Vivyan C. Adair and Sandra L. Dahlberg 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 225 1 $aTeaching/learning social justice 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-59213-021-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 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 justice. 606 $aPoor women$zUnited States 606 $aPoor women$xEducation (Higher)$zUnited States 606 $aLow-income single mothers$zUnited States 606 $aWelfare recipients$zUnited States 606 $aWomen college students$zUnited States 615 0$aPoor women 615 0$aPoor women$xEducation (Higher) 615 0$aLow-income single mothers 615 0$aWelfare recipients 615 0$aWomen college students 676 $a378.1/9826/942 701 $aAdair$b Vivyan Campbell$01756552 701 $aDahlberg$b Sandra L.$f1958-$01756553 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824490803321 996 $aReclaiming class$94193882 997 $aUNINA