Contents
Introduction
Family: Supporting, Resisting, Shaping
Carolyn Whitson, "Use the Broken Things"
Kathlene McDonald, "Talking Trash, Talking Back: Resistance to
Stereotypes
in Bastard Out of Carolina."
Margaret Ames, Introduction to Writings from Prison
Deborah Powell, "Black Like Me"
Rosa Lopez, "Christmas"
Joanne Botte, "What I Would Do With My Son on a Trailer Visit"
Donna Stefan, "My Father"
John Gilgun, "Counting Tips"
Patti See, "My Mother, According to Me"
Learning and Unlearning: Class Lessons in and out of the Classroom
Maureen Dyer, "Taking A/part"
Carolyn Whitson, "The Not-So-Distant Mirror: Medieval Studies
and
the Working-Class Classroom"
Terry Easton, "Ideological Reflections in the Silent Worker and
the Deaf
American: Print Publication and the Laboring Deaf Body"
Deb Busman, "Representations of 'Intelligence': A Look at the
Workings
of Class Bias in Life and Literature"
Eileen Bresnahan, "The Self-Manufactured Woman: Working-Class
Identity
in the Academy"
Writing Resistance in the Workplace
Julia Stein, "Tangled Threads: Two Contemporary Novels about
the Textile Trades"
Carol Tarlen, "Blood on the Carpet"
William Watson, "'These mill-hands are gettin' onbearable': The
Logic of Class Formation in 'Life in the Iron Mills'"
Karen Kovacik, "Words of Fire for Our Generation: Contemporary
Working-Class Poets on the Triange Fire"
Tim Libretti, "Beyond False Promises: K.B. Gildenís Between the
Hills and the Sea and
the Rethinking of Working Class Culture, Consciousness, and
Activism"
Pat Wynne, "Teaching Labor History through Song"
Joan Jobe Smith, "You, With the Stars in Your Eyes," "Jehovah
Jukebox"
Claiming an Identity
Merrihelen Ponce, "On Language: An Essay"
Barbara Jensen, "The Silent Psychology"
Jane Greer, "Writing With & Against the Master's Language:
Lessons in
Critical Literacy from Working-Class Women"
Janet Zandy, "Traveling Working Class"
Women's Voices and Lives in the Non-Western World
Kendall, "Lesbian Expression in Lesotho: Homophobia is the White
Folk's
Disease"
Sarah Brown-Clark, Book Review: Singing Away the Hunger by Mpho
'M'atsepo Nthunya
Special Section: In Memory of Constance Coiner, a "foremother" of
contemporary working-class studies
Virginia Coiner Classick
Karen Rowe
Diana Hume George
Liz Rosenberg
Lisa Orr
Janet Zandy