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| About the Editors | |
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| Preface: Still Crying out Loud | |
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| Introduction Talking across the Tables | |
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| Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Former Welfare Recipient | |
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| Why Mother Slapped Me | |
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| To a Single Mother | |
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| There but for Fortune: The Failures of Our Dreams and Back-Up Systems | |
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| If We Could, We Would Be Someplace Else | |
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| Media Lies: Media, Public Opinion, and Welfare | |
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| A Hole in My Soul: Experiences of Homeless Women | |
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| Gimme Shelter: Battering and Poverty | |
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| How the U.S. Economy Creates Poverty and Inequality | |
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| It's a Family Affair: Women, Poverty, and Welfare | |
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| Beyond the "Normal Family": A Cultural Critique of Women's Poverty | |
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| Bearing Witness to Teen Motherhood: The Politics of Violations of Girlhood | |
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| Family Matters, Work Matters?: Poverty among Women of Color and White Women | |
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| References | |
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| Working in America: The Female Immigrant Experience | |
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| References | |
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| Working Your Fingers to the Bone | |
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| 'Buked and Scorned': Beyond "Ending Welfare as We Know It" | |
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| Notes | |
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| Finding Voice: Building Community at Survival News | |
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| Women and the State | |
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| We Don't All Agree That Welfare Has Failed | |
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| We'Re All Workers Why Can't We Talk? | |
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| Welfare: The Basement of the Wage Scale | |
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| Women and Public Employment Programs: What Has Worked, What Has Not, and What Is Needed | |
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| The Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State | |
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| References | |
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| For Better and for Worse: Women Asainst Women in the Welfare State | |
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| Dependent on the Kindness of Strangers: Issues behind Welfare Reform | |
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| Together We Are Getting Freedom | |
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| Welfare: What It's Not! | |
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| And Still I Rise: Visions of a New Movement to Abolish Poverty | |
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| Welfare Rights Organizing Saved My Life | |
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| Recognizing Mother Heroes | |
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| Now Is the Time: Mainstream Feminism's Statements on Welfare Rights | |
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| Colleges Can Help Women in Poverty | |
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| Why Every Woman in America Should Beware of Welfare Cuts | |
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| Speaking for Ourselves: A Lifetime of Welfare Rights Organizing | |
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| Apologies Don't Help | |
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| Punishing People out of Poverty: Job, Welfare, and Community Change | |
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| Talking across the Tables: Moving beyond Dialogue to Negotiation and Action | |
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| About the Contributors | |
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| Pass the Ammunition: The Best Sources for Crying out Loud | |
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| Knowing the Enemy: The Best Sources for Reading about the Right | |
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| Index | |