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Without a net : the female experience of growing up working class / edited by Michelle Tea.
- Title
- Without a net : the female experience of growing up working class / edited by Michelle Tea.
- Publication
- Emeryville, CA : Seal Press, c2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HD6095 .W63 2003 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Tea, Michelle.
- Description
- xv, 224 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Michelle Tea shares these fierce, honest, tender essays written by women who can't go home to the suburbs when ends don't meet. When jobs are scarce and the money has dwindled, these writers have nowhere to go but below the poverty line. The writers offer their different stories not for sympathy or sadness, but an unvarnished portrait of how it was, is, and will be for generations of women growing up working class in America. These wide-ranging essays cover everything from selling blood for grocery money to the culture shock of "jumping" class. -- From product description.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Essay
- essays.
- Essays
- Essais.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Waiting / Maria Rivera -- Poet and the pauper / Meliza BaFiales -- Rain / Ida Acton -- Steal away / Dorothy Allison -- The prison we called home / Siobhan Brooks -- Farm use / Joy Castro -- A Catholic leg / Terry Ryan -- My father's hands / Daisy Hernandez -- Winter coat / Terri Griffith -- The just-add-water Kennedys and barbecue bread violence / Polyestra -- Filling / Sailor Holladay -- Reverse / Silas Howard -- There are holes in my Mandarin dog biscuit / Shell Feijo -- My memory and witness / Lis Goldschmidt, Dean Spade -- My season of paper dresses / Colleen McKee -- Wings / tatiana de la tierra -- What I ate where / Diane di Prima -- The lower-working-class narrative of a Black Chinese American girl / Wendy Thompson -- Blueprints and hardwires / Cassie Peterson -- The sound of poverty / Eileen Myles -- Dirty girl / Tara Hardy -- Dinner talk / Liliana Hernandez -- It's just blood / Hadassah M. Hill -- Ghetto fabulous / Tina Fakhrid-Deen -- For those who like to dig / Ricky Lee -- Getting out / Frances Varian -- Fighting / Bee Lavender -- My mother was a whore / Nikki Levine -- Scholarship ba / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha -- Something from nothing / Shawna Kenney.
- ISBN
- 1580051030
- OCLC
- 54362665
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library