Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class
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Book
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Publication Year
2003
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Subject
Feminism, poverty, lived experience
Description
Much has been written about the plight of the working poor in America, but not by those with first-hand knowledge of how poverty shapes and distorts lives. Tired of the one-dimensional portrayal of the working class that sociologists and journalists routinely offer up, Michelle Tea has collected these scorching yet tender essays from writers who grew up knowing the pressure of parents' dead-end dreams: scamming, stealing, and hustling just to get food on the table: the complex humiliation of free lunch and county hospitals: and a fierce impulse to gather and protect those who shared their tenements, houses, and neighbourhoods.
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