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| About the Editors | p. V |
| Preface: Still Crying out Loud | p. XIII |
| Introduction Talking across the Tables | p. 1 |
| Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Former Welfare Recipient | p. 9 |
| Why Mother Slapped Me | p. 13 |
| To a Single Mother | p. 17 |
| There but for Fortune: The Failures of Our Dreams and Back-Up Systems | p. 19 |
| If We Could, We Would Be Someplace Else | p. 23 |
| Media Lies: Media, Public Opinion, and Welfare | p. 29 |
| A Hole in My Soul: Experiences of Homeless Women | p. 41 |
| Gimme Shelter: Battering and Poverty | p. 57 |
| How the U.S. Economy Creates Poverty and Inequality | p. 67 |
| It's a Family Affair: Women, Poverty, and Welfare | p. 79 |
| Beyond the "Normal Family": A Cultural Critique of Women's Poverty | p. 87 |
| Bearing Witness to Teen Motherhood: The Politics of Violations of Girlhood | p. 107 |
| Family Matters, Work Matters?: Poverty among Women of Color and White Women | p. 121 |
| References | p. 137 |
| Working in America: The Female Immigrant Experience | p. 141 |
| References | p. 149 |
| Working Your Fingers to the Bone | p. 151 |
| 'Buked and Scorned': Beyond "Ending Welfare as We Know It" | p. 155 |
| Notes | p. 161 |
| Finding Voice: Building Community at Survival News | p. 163 |
| Women and the State | p. 183 |
| We Don't All Agree That Welfare Has Failed | p. 201 |
| We'Re All Workers Why Can't We Talk? | p. 209 |
| Welfare: The Basement of the Wage Scale | p. 215 |
| Women and Public Employment Programs: What Has Worked, What Has Not, and What Is Needed | p. 223 |
| The Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State | p. 235 |
| References | p. 263 |
| For Better and for Worse: Women Asainst Women in the Welfare State | p. 269 |
| Dependent on the Kindness of Strangers: Issues behind Welfare Reform | p. 287 |
| Together We Are Getting Freedom | p. 295 |
| Welfare: What It's Not! | p. 307 |
| And Still I Rise: Visions of a New Movement to Abolish Poverty | p. 309 |
| Welfare Rights Organizing Saved My Life | p. 313 |
| Recognizing Mother Heroes | p. 327 |
| Now Is the Time: Mainstream Feminism's Statements on Welfare Rights | p. 337 |
| Colleges Can Help Women in Poverty | p. 341 |
| Why Every Woman in America Should Beware of Welfare Cuts | p. 349 |
| Speaking for Ourselves: A Lifetime of Welfare Rights Organizing | p. 355 |
| Apologies Don't Help | p. 367 |
| Punishing People out of Poverty: Job, Welfare, and Community Change | p. 369 |
| Talking across the Tables: Moving beyond Dialogue to Negotiation and Action | p. 379 |
| About the Contributors | p. 391 |
| Pass the Ammunition: The Best Sources for Crying out Loud | p. 399 |
| Knowing the Enemy: The Best Sources for Reading about the Right | p. 401 |
| Index | p. 403 |
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