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9780761829799

Those Winter Sundays Female Academics and Their Working-Class Parents

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  • ISBN13:

    9780761829799

  • ISBN10:

    0761829792

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-12-17
  • Publisher: UPA
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Summary

This collection of memoirs examines the relationship between daughters with academic degrees and their working-class parents. Each contributor explores the influence that higher education has had on her relationship with her parent(s), as well as their influence on her academic work.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Janet Zandy vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction by Kathleen A. Welsch xv
Diane Kendig 1(12)
The Seams That Stood All the Changes: Keeping It Together in Academia
Crystal Brothe 13(8)
You Ain't Never Gonna Be Better Than Me
Gwen Gorzelsky 21(15)
The Uses of Denial, or The Psychology of Class
Kathleen A. Welsch 36(13)
Living and Learning in the Balance
Sharon Robideaux 49(9)
From White Trash to White Collar
Laurel Johnson Black 58(11)
Another Cup
Patti Capel Swartz 69(15)
"A Circle" or, Strangely, a Life in School
Nancy E. Atkinson 84(9)
The Ever Present Past
Theresa M. Welford 93(10)
Red Necks, Blue Collars and Schooling
Carolyn Whitson & Renny Christopher 103(17)
A Waitress, A Hairdresser and Their Daughters Who Became Professors
Annette C. Rosati 120(11)
Literacy and the Quality of Life
Lori Amy 131(17)
Army Green and the University: The After Life of War Wounds
Karen Pittman 148(13)
I Know What to Look For
Sonia Apgar Begert 161(12)
Fragments/I (Re)member
Jean A. Grace 173(16)
Speaking in Tongues: The Complications of Difference, Loyalty, and Entitlement in an Academic Life
Contributor Information 189

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