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Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America
Don't Call Us Out of Name The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America Author:Lisa Dodson 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... more » 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.« less
read this book during college...give a wonderful perspective of the real dilemma of the poor single female. Takes away alot of the stereotypes that government gives the poor (mostly during elections).