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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: For crying out loud. Boston, Ma : South End Press, c1996 (OCoLC)606017331 Online version: For crying out loud. Boston, Ma : South End Press, c1996 (OCoLC)608971581 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Diane Dujon; Ann Withorn |
| ISBN: | 0896085295 9780896085299 0896085309 9780896085305 |
| OCLC Number: | 35198566 |
| Description: | xvi, 414 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface. Still crying out loud / Ann Withorn -- Out of the frying pan : reflections of a former welfare recipient / Diane Dujon -- Why mother slapped me / Ann Withorn -- To a single mother / Susan Eisenberg -- If we could, we would be someplace else / Laura Walker -- Media lies : media, public opinion, and welfare / Laura Flanders with Janine Jackson and Dan Shadoan -- A hole in my soul : experiences of homeless women / Roofless Women's Action Research Mobilization researchers, Deborah Clarke ... [et al.] ; edited and narrated by Marie Kennedy -- Gimme shelter : battering and poverty / Susan James and Beth Harris -- How the U.S. economy creates poverty and inequality / Mary Huff Stevenson and Elaine Donovan -- It's a family affair : women, poverty, and welfare / Randy Albelda and Chris Tilly -- Beyond the "normal family" : a cultural critique of women's poverty / Margaret Cerullo and Marla Erlien -- Bearing witness to teen motherhood : the politics of violations of girlhood / Robin A. Robinson -- Family matters, work matters? Poverty among women of color and white women / Lisa Catanzarite and Vilma Ortiz -- Working in America : the female immigrant experience / Fong Yee Lee -- Working your fingers to the bone / Marion Graham -- Finding voice : building community at Survival News / Claire Cummings and Betty Reid Mandell -- Women and the state : ideology, power, and welfare / Frances Fox Piven -- We don't all agree that welfare has failed / Ann Withorn -- We're all workers : why can't we talk? / Diane Dujon -- Welfare : the basement of the wage scale / Sandy Felder -- Women and public employment programs : what has worked, what has not, and what is needed / Nancy Rose -- The genealogy of dependency : tracing a keyword of the U.S. welfare state / Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon -- For better and for worse : women against women in the welfare state / Ann Withorn -- Dependent on the kindness of strangers : issues behind welfare reform / Mimi Abramovitz -- Together we are getting freedom / Noemy Vides and Vicky Steinitz -- Welfare : what it's not! / Diane Dujon -- Welfare rights organizing saved my life / Dottie Stevens -- Recognizing mother heroes / Ann Withorn -- Now is the time : mainstream feminism's statements on welfare rights / Martha F. Davis -- Colleges can help women in poverty / Erika Kates -- Why every woman in America should beware of welfare cuts [text of full page ad in The New York Times, August 8, 1995] / Women's Committee of One Hundred -- Speaking for ourselves : a lifetime of welfare rights organizing / Marian Kramer -- Apologies don't help / Milwaukee Welfare Warriors -- Punishing people out of poverty : jobs, welfare, and community change / Dianne Wilkerson. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Diane Dujon and Ann Withorn. |
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