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Stories, Causes, Rivals Stories, Causes, Rivals
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Talking Back to Stereotypes and Myths Talking Back to Stereotypes and Myths
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IT’S BEEN SAID: Women on welfare are all unwed teen mothers.Close IT’S BEEN SAID: Women on welfare are all unwed teen mothers.Close
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IT’S BEEN SAID: Welfare benefits only help women to avoid the consequences of their sexually irresponsible behavior. IT’S BEEN SAID: Welfare benefits only help women to avoid the consequences of their sexually irresponsible behavior.
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IT’S BEEN SAID: Welfare recipients are bad mothers. IT’S BEEN SAID: Welfare recipients are bad mothers.
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IT’S BEEN SAID: Welfare recipients are all undeserving junkies or crazies. IT’S BEEN SAID: Welfare recipients are all undeserving junkies or crazies.
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IT’S BEEN SAID: Get off welfare–there are lots of jobs out there! IT’S BEEN SAID: Get off welfare–there are lots of jobs out there!
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IT’S BEEN SAID: Poor women are used to rough living. They give as good as they get in relationships. IT’S BEEN SAID: Poor women are used to rough living. They give as good as they get in relationships.
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IT’S BEEN SAID: Women on welfare are just dependent losers. American society is based on survival of the fittest. Welfare recipients are clearly the “unfit,” and there’s no reason to listen to their whining. IT’S BEEN SAID: Women on welfare are just dependent losers. American society is based on survival of the fittest. Welfare recipients are clearly the “unfit,” and there’s no reason to listen to their whining.
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5 Welfare Recipients Talk Back: with the assistance of Lorraine Higgins
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Published:July 2011
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Abstract
This chapter presents stories and causal analyses written by eight current and former welfare recipients who participated in a community literacy project. As they tell their stories of toil and trouble, tenacity and redemption, the writers respond to myths about poverty, motherhood, work, and relationships. They produce narratives to represent how they have experienced conflicts affecting welfare recipients’ safety, solvency, or eligibility for welfare benefits. The writers also provide their own causal analyses of their situations and trajectories and carry on imaginary dialogs with rival perspective and explanations, to which they in turn ‘talk back.’ The particulars of these women’s situations–and especially the ways that relationships with controlling men obstruct not just their employment but their realizing their life projects–often do not fit with the categories through which the criminal justice and welfare systems try to recognize the “needs” of poor or abused women.
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