Preface. Still crying out loud / Ann Withorn
Out of the frying pan : reflections of a former welfare recipient / Diane Dujon
Why mother slapped me / Ann Withorn
To a single mother / Susan Eisenberg
If we could, we would be someplace else / Laura Walker
Media lies : media, public opinion, and welfare / Laura Flanders with Janine Jackson and Dan Shadoan
A hole in my soul : experiences of homeless women / Roofless Women's Action Research Mobilization researchers, Deborah Clarke ... [et al.] ; edited and narrated by Marie Kennedy
Gimme shelter : battering and poverty / Susan James and Beth Harris
How the U.S. economy creates poverty and inequality / Mary Huff Stevenson and Elaine Donovan
It's a family affair : women, poverty, and welfare / Randy Albelda and Chris Tilly
Beyond the "normal family" : a cultural critique of women's poverty / Margaret Cerullo and Marla Erlien
Bearing witness to teen motherhood : the politics of violations of girlhood / Robin A. Robinson
Family matters, work matters? Poverty among women of color and white women / Lisa Catanzarite and Vilma Ortiz
Working in America : the female immigrant experience / Fong Yee Lee
Working your fingers to the bone / Marion Graham
Finding voice : building community at Survival News / Claire Cummings and Betty Reid Mandell
Women and the state : ideology, power, and welfare / Frances Fox Piven
We don't all agree that welfare has failed / Ann Withorn
We're all workers : why can't we talk? / Diane Dujon
Welfare : the basement of the wage scale / Sandy Felder
Women and public employment programs : what has worked, what has not, and what is needed / Nancy Rose
The genealogy of dependency : tracing a keyword of the U.S. welfare state / Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon
For better and for worse : women against women in the welfare state / Ann Withorn
Dependent on the kindness of strangers : issues behind welfare reform / Mimi Abramovitz
Together we are getting freedom / Noemy Vides and Vicky Steinitz
Welfare : what it's not! / Diane Dujon
Welfare rights organizing saved my life / Dottie Stevens
Recognizing mother heroes / Ann Withorn
Now is the time : mainstream feminism's statements on welfare rights / Martha F. Davis
Colleges can help women in poverty / Erika Kates
Why every woman in America should beware of welfare cuts [text of full page ad in The New York Times, August 8, 1995] / Women's Committee of One Hundred
Speaking for ourselves : a lifetime of welfare rights organizing / Marian Kramer
Apologies don't help / Milwaukee Welfare Warriors
Punishing people out of poverty : jobs, welfare, and community change / Dianne Wilkerson.
