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For over eight years, Dodson has been documenting the lives of girls and women - hundreds of white, African-American, Latino, Haitian, Irish, and other women in personal interviews, focus groups, surveys, and Life-History Studies.
This book is a crossing - a class crossing - taking readers into fellowship with people who are seldom invited to speak but who have powerful stories to tell and who force us to abandon common myths that have been fed to us by the media about school dropouts, teen pregnancy, and welfare "cheats." Don't Call Us Out of Name delves deeply into the realities of their lives, often with surprising and uplifting stories of commonplace courage, unimaginable strength, and resourcefulness.
Lisa Dodson does not simply give us the truth about women living in poverty but offers realistic hope for meaningful policy reform based on the experience and analysis of the women we have seen so far only in stereotype and whose voices we have not truly heard. These women emerge as critical contributors to the creation of sound, humane public policy.
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Poor children, Welfare recipients, Economic conditions, Public welfare, Social conditions, Poor women, Women, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women, united states, social conditions, Girls, Poor, united states, Public welfare, united states, Women, economic conditions, Femmes pauvres, Enfants pauvres, Aide sociale, Bénéficiaires, Femmes, Conditions sociales, Conditions économiquesPlaces
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Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America
September 25, 1999, Beacon Press
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Don't call us out of name: the untold lives of women and girls in poor America
1998, Beacon Press
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