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Revealing stories about the ways in which social programs help and harm women struggling to change their lives

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Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Prelude: The North Country 2. Two Wars on Poverty Part II: Women Reformed 3. Taking Control of Everyday Life 4. Making Good Work 5. The American Dream Part III: Women Empowered 6. Power and Ceremony 7. The Bureaucratization of North Country Head Start 8. Defiance...and Withdrawal 9. Devotion, Social Class, and the Union 10. The Limits on/of Empowerment: What Is to Be Done? References Index

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      Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/12/1996
      ISBN13: 9781566394932, 978-1566394932
      ISBN10: 1566394937
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      Gender studies, gender groups Housing and homelessness Poverty and precarity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Revealing stories about the ways in which social programs help and harm women struggling to change their lives

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Part I: Introduction 1. Prelude: The North Country 2. Two Wars on Poverty Part II: Women Reformed 3. Taking Control of Everyday Life 4. Making Good Work 5. The American Dream Part III: Women Empowered 6. Power and Ceremony 7. The Bureaucratization of North Country Head Start 8. Defiance...and Withdrawal 9. Devotion, Social Class, and the Union 10. The Limits on/of Empowerment: What Is to Be Done? References Index

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