AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty, and the Promise of Higher Education in America – Vivyan C. Adair and Sandra L. DahlbergSpeech Pathology: The Deflowering of an Accent – Laura Sullivan-HackleyPart I: Educators Remember1. Disciplined and Punished Poor Women, Bodily Inscription, and Resistance through Education – Vivyan C. Adair2. Academic Constructions of "White Trash," or How to Insult Poor People without Really Trying – Nell Sullivan3. Survival in a Not So Brave New World – Sandra L. Dahlberg4. To Be Young, Pregnant, and Black: My Life as a Welfare Coed – Joycelyn K. Moody5. If You Want Me to Pull Myself Up, Give Me Bootstraps – Lisa K. WaldnerPart II: On The Front Lines6. If I Survive, It Will Be Despite Welfare Reform: Reflections of a Former Welfare Student – Tonya Mitchell7. Not By Myself Alone: Upward Bound with Family and Friends – Deborah Megivern8. Choosing the Lesser Evil: The Violence of the Welfare Stereotype – Andrea S. Harris9. From Welfare to Academe: Welfare Reform as College-Educated Welfare Mothers Know It – Sandy Smith Madsen10. Seven Years in Exile – Leticia AlmanzaPart III: Policy, Research, And Poor Women11. Families First-but Not in Higher Education: Poor, Independent Students and the Impact of Financial Aid – Sandra L. Dahlberg12. The Leper Keepers: Front-Line Workers and the Key to Education for Poor Women – Judith Owens-Manley13. "That's Why I'm on Prozac": Battered Women, Traumatic Stress, and Education in the Context of Welfare Reform – Lisa D. Brush14. Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education – Vivyan C. AdairAbout the Contributors
