Reclaiming class: women, poverty, and the promise of higher education in America

Introduction: Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America / Vivyan C. Adair and Sandra L. Dahlberg

Speech Pathology: The Deflowering of an Accent / Laura Sullivan-Hackley

1. Disciplined and Punished: Poor Women, Bodily Inscription, and Resistance through Education / Vivyan C. Adair

2. Academic Constructions of "White Trash," or How to Insult Poor People without Really Trying / Nell Sullivan

3. Survival in a Not So Brave New World / Sandra L. Dahlberg

4. To Be Young, Pregnant, and Black: My Life as a Welfare Coed / Joycelyn K. Moody

5. If You Want Me to Pull Myself Up, Give Me Bootstraps / Lisa K. Waldner

6. If I Survive, It Will Be Despite Welfare Reform: Reflections of a Former Welfare Student / Tonya Mitchell

7. Not By Myself Alone: Upward Bound with Family and Friends / Deborah Megivern

8. Choosing the Lesser Evil: The Violence of the Welfare Stereotype / Andrea S. Harris

9. From Welfare to Academe: Welfare Reform as College-Educated Welfare Mothers Know It / Sandy Smith Madsen

10. Seven Years in Exile / Leticia Almanza

11. Families First - but Not in Higher Education: Poor, Independent Students and the Impact of Financial Aid / Sandra L. Dahlberg

12. Leper Keepers: Front-Line Workers and the Key to Education for Poor Women / Judith Owens-Manley

13. "That's Why I'm on Prozac": Battered Women, Traumatic Stress, and Education in the Context of Welfare Reform / Lisa D. Brush

14. Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education / Vivyan C. Adair.