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. " e c a I m I n g CLAS---~ Reclaiming Class Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America CopyrightedMaterial In theseries TEACHING/LEARNING SOCIAL JUSTICE editedby LeeAnne Bell CopyrightedMaterial ReclaiIning Class Women, Poverty, and the Promise ofHigher Education in America Edited by c. VIVYAN ADAIR AND SANDRA L. DAHLBERG TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Philadelphia CopyrightedMaterial TempleUniversityPress,Philadelphia19122 Copyright©2003byTempleUniversity Allrightsreserved Published2003 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica e ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstherequirementsoftheAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciences-PermanenceofPaperforPrinted LibraryMaterials,ANSI239.48-1984 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Reclaimingclass:women,poverty,and thepromiseofhighereducationin America / editedbyVivyanC.AdairandSandraL.Dahlberg. p. cm. - (Teaching/learningsocialjustice) Includesbibliographicalreferences. ISBN1-59213-021-6(cloth:alk.paper) - ISBN1-59213-022-4(pbk.:aIk. paper) 1. Poorwomen-UnitedStates. 2. Poorwomen-Education(Higher) UnitedStates. 3. Poorsinglemothers-UnitedStates. 4. Welfarerecip ients-UnitedStates. 5. Womencollegestudents-UnitedStates. 1. Adair, VivyanCampbell. II. Dahlberg,SandraL.,1958-- III. Series. HVl445.R432003 378.1'9826'942-<ic21 2002035274 CopyrightedMaterial This book is dedicated to those whose lives speak daily to the contradictions ofAmerican meritocracy CopyrightedMaterial CopyrightedMaterial Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: ReclaimingClass:Women, Poverty, and the PromiseofHigherEducation inAmerica VIVYAN C. ADAIR ANDSANDRAL. DAHLBERG 1 Speech Pathology: TheDefloweringofanAccent 21 LAURASULLIVAN-HACKLEY 1. EDUCATORS REMEMBER 1 Disciplinedand Punished: PoorWomen, BodilyInscription, and Resistance throughEducation VIVYAN C. ADAIR 25 2 AcademicConstructionsof"WhiteTrash," or How to InsultPoorPeoplewithout ReallyTrying 53 NELLSULLIVAN 3 Survivalina NotSo BraveNew World SANDRAL. DAHLBERG 67 4 ToBeYoung, Pregnant, and Black: MyLife asa WelfareCoed JOYCELYNK. MOODY 85 5 IfYou WantMe to PullMyselfUp, Give Me Bootstraps LISAK. WALDNER 97 vii CopyrightedMaterial viii CONTENTS II. ON THE FRONT LINES 6 lfISurvive,ItWill Be DespiteWelfare Reform: Reflections ofa FormerWelfareStudent 113 TONYA MITCHELL 7 Not By MyselfAlone: Upward Bound with Familyand Friends 119 DEBORAH MEGIVERN 8 Choosing the LesserEvil:The Violenceofthe WelfareStereotype 131 ANDREAS. HARRIS 9 FromWelfare toAcademe: WelfareReform as College-Educated WelfareMothers KnowIt 139 SANDYSMITH MADSEN 10 SevenYearsinExile 157 LETICIAALMANZA III. POLICY, RESEARCH, AND POOR WOMEN 11 FamiliesFirst-butNotinHigherEducation: Poor, IndependentStudentsand the Impactof FinancialAid SANDRA L. DAHLBERG 169 12 The Leper Keepers: Front-Line Workers and the Key to Educationfor PoorWomen JUDITH OWENS-MANLEY 196 13 "That'sWhy I'm onProzac": Battered Women, Traumatic Stress, and Educationin the ContextofWelfareReform LiSA D. BRUSH 215 14 Fulfilling the PromiseofHigher Education VIVYAN C. ADAIR 240 About theContributors 267 CopyrightedMaterial Acknowledgments WETHANKLeeAnne BellandTempleUniversityPressandour friends and colleagues at Hamilton College and the University of Houston-Downtown for their encouragement and support. Most im portant, we thank our families-especially Heather, Geryl, and Bob Adair, Ronnie Johnston, Rebekah Lockner, and Sean Lockner-who made this journeywith us. ix CopyrightedMaterial
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