Without a net : the female experience of growing up working class / edited by Michelle Tea.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tea, Michelle, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class women--United States.

Working class women.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 252 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Seal Press, [2017]

Summary:

In this updated collection of groundbreaking essays, indie icon Michelle Tea-whose memoir The Chelsea Whistle details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts-shares the fierce and tender stories of women who have no safety net when their money runs out. Making do with inadequate health care, unsafe housing, dead-end jobs, unemployment, and humiliating judgement from the privileged class, these writers' windows into working-class life show that even in the moments when there is money in the bank and security finally seems possible, the legacy of living on the brink leaves an indelible mark. Book jacket.

Contents:

Another Year Older and Deeper in Debt / Rachel Ann Brickner Brickner, Rachel Ann 1

The Burden of Enough / Ijeoma Oluo Oluo, Ijeoma 5

Steal Away / Dorothy Allison Allison, Dorothy 11

Farm Use / Joy Castro Castro, Joy 20

The Best Professionals Have Never Seen an Arrest / Naomi Begg Begg, Naomi 31

The Prison We Called Home / Siobhan Brooks Brooks, Siobhan 38

A Catholic Leg / Terry Ryan Ryan, Terry 50

Deep Cleavage, Black Dresses, and White Men / Virgie Tovar Tovar, Virgie 61

My Father's Hands / Daisy Hernández Hernández, Daisy 70

What's the Question Again? / Aya De Leon Leon, Aya De 83

Winter Coat / Terri Griffith Griffith, Terri 89

The Just-Add-Water Kennedys and Barbecue Bread Violence / Polyestra 99

Career Counseling / Ariel Gore Gore, Ariel 110

My Dead Abuelo Needs a Sugar Daddy / Juliana Delgado Lopera Lopera, Juliana Delgado 115

Reverse / Silas Howard Howard, Silas 123

My Memory and Witness / Lis Goldschmidt Goldschmidt, Lis, Dean Spade Spade, Dean 131

Aunt Marion, Who Lived in Florida / Liz McGlinchey King King, Liz McGlinchey 137

Wings / Tatiana de la tierra tierra, Tatiana de la 147

There are Holes in My Mandarin Dog Biscuit / Shell Feijo Feijo, Shell 156

On Excess / Chloe Caldwell Caldwell, Chloe 163

The Lower-Working-Class Narrative of a Black Chinese American Girl / Wendy Thompson Thompson, Wendy 169

The Sound of Poverty / Eileen Myles Myles, Eileen 178

Ghetto Fabulous / Tina Fakhrid-Deen Fakhrid-Deen, Tina 183

Getting Out / Frances Varian Varian, Frances 193

Fighting / Bee Lavender Lavender, Bee 201

Scholarship Baby / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi 219

Something From Nothing / Shawna Kenney Kenney, Shawna 230

Passing as Privileged / Lilly Dancyger Dancyger, Lilly 240.

Other Format:

Online version: Without a net.

ISBN:

9781580056663

1580056660

OCLC:

1004376213