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Reclaiming Class

Women, Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education in America

Autor: Sandra L. Dahlberg, Vivyan C. Adair

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Temple University Press,U.S.

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"Reclaiming Class" offers essays written by women who changed their lives through the pathway of hig...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Sandra L. Dahlberg, Vivyan C. Adair

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2003

strony

280

EAN

9781592130214

Enbook ID

05087100

Wydawca

Temple University Press,U.S.

Waga

567

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 23

Pełny opis

"Reclaiming 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 economic intersections of poverty and the educational process. In the first section, women who left poverty through higher education recall their negotiating the paths of college life to show how their experiences reveal the hidden paradoxes of education. Section two presents first person narratives of students whose lives are shaped by their roles as poor mothers, guardian siblings, and daughters, as well as the ways that race interacts with their poverty.Chapters exploring financial aid and welfare policy, battery and abuse, and the social constructions of the poor woman finish the book. Offering a comprehensive picture of how poor women access all levels of private and public institutions to achieve against great odds, "Reclaiming Class" shows the workings of higher learning from the vantage point of those most subject to the vicissitudes of policy and reform agendas. Vivyan C. Adair is Assistant Professor in the Women's Studies Department at Hamilton College, and Director of The ACCESS Project, which supports low-income parents in their efforts to exit inter-generational poverty through higher education and pre-career employment. Sandra L. Dahlberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston-Downtown.