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Tables of Contents for Reclaiming Class
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Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America
1
20
Vivyan C. Adair
Sandra L. Dahlberg
Speech Pathology: The Deflowering of an Accent
21
4
Laura Sullivan-Hackley
I. Educators Remember
Disciplined and Punished: Poor Women, Bodily Inscription, and Resistance through Education
25
28
Vivyan C. Adair
Academic Constructions of ``White Trash,'' or How to Insult Poor People without Really Trying
53
14
Nell Sullivan
Survival in a Not So Brave New World
67
18
Sandra L. Dahlberg
To Be Young, Pregnant, and Black: My Life as a Welfare Coed
85
12
Joycelyn K. Moody
If You Want Me to Pull Myself Up, Give Me Bootstraps
97
16
Lisa K. Waldner
II. On the Front Lines
If I Survive, It Will Be Despite Welfare Reform: Reflections of a Former Welfare Student
113
6
Tonya Mitchell
Not By Myself Alone: Upward Bound with Family and Friends
119
12
Deborah Megivern
Choosing the Lesser Evil: The Violence of the Welfare Stereotype
131
8
Andrea S. Harris
From Welfare to Academe: Welfare Reform as College-Educated Welfare Mothers Know It
139
18
Sandy Smith Madsen
Seven Years in Exile
157
12
Leticia Almanza
III. Policy, Research, and Poor Women
Families First---but Not in Higher Education: Poor, Independent Students and the Impact of Financial Aid
169
27
Sandra L. Dahlberg
The Leper Keepers: Front-Line Workers and the Key to Education for Poor Women
196
19
Judith Owens-Manley
``That's Why I'm on Prozac'': Battered Women, Traumatic Stress, and Education in the Context of Welfare Reform
215
25
Lisa D. Brush
Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education
240
27
Vivyan C. Adair
About the Contributors
267