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Don't call us out of name :

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0807042080

(Number (ISBN

9780807042083

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b415223

Title Proper

Don't call us out of name :

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[Book]

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the untold lives of women and girls in poor America /

First Statement of Responsibility

Lisa Dodson

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 256 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references

Text of Note

Daughters' work -- Boyfriends, love, and sex -- Choice and motherhood in poor America -- Losses and loathing in the welfare years -- Moving on, "Don't call me out of name" -- Common woman's resistance -- Coda -- Afterword: What is happening to our people?

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In the robust economy of the 1990s, it is easy to forget the 37 million people, mostly women and children, living below the federal poverty level. [The author], a policy fellow at the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute, brings this issue to the forefront of the national debate. After all, she points out, poor women are raising a large part of the nation. [She] bases her research on years of observation and working relationships with poor women in community organizations. She chronicles the path of poverty in terms of life stages: from youth, where daughters help raise younger siblings; to adolescence, where girls become mothers themselves; to middle age, where the fortunate women rise above their situation, often by networking with one another. The strengths of this work are its clear analysis and its recommendations for concrete changes in public policy.-Library Journal

Title

Don't call us out of name.

Title

Don't call us out of name.

Poor children-- United States

Poor women-- United States

Public welfare-- United States

Welfare recipients-- United States

Women-- United States-- Economic conditions

Women-- United States-- Social conditions

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Edition

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Dodson, Lisa

Date of Transaction

20160712063305.0

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[Book]

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