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" Don't call us out of name : "
Lisa Dodson
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BL
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586004
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b415223
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Dodson, Lisa
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Don't call us out of name : : the untold lives of women and girls in poor America /\ Lisa Dodson
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x, 256 pages ;; 24 cm
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0807042080
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: 9780807042083
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Includes bibliographical references
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| Contents
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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
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Poor women-- United States
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Poor children-- United States
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Welfare recipients-- United States
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Public welfare-- United States
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Women-- United States-- Social conditions
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Women-- United States-- Economic conditions
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305.42/086/942
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HV1445.D63 1998
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