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Without a net: the female experience of growing up working class

By Michelle , Tea

Book information

Publisher
Da Capo Press;Seal Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781580056670, 9781580056663, 1580056679
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2666556 bytes)
Edition
Revised edition
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Working class women -- United States;United States

Description

An urgent testament to the trials of life for women living without a financial safety netIndie icon Michelle Tea—whose memoir The Chelsea Whistle details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts—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. Contributors include Dorothy Allison, Bee Lavender, Eileen Myles, and Daisy Hernández.

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