| Preface: Still Crying Out Loud | |
| Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Former Welfare Recipient | 9 |
| Why Mother Slapped Me | 13 |
| To a Single Mother | 17 |
| If We Could, We Would Be Someplace Else | 23 |
| Media Lies: Media, Public Opinion, and Welfare | 29 |
| A Hole in My Soul: Experiences of Homeless Women | 41 |
| Gimme Shelter: Battering and Poverty | 57 |
| How the U.S. Economy Creates Poverty and Inequality | 67 |
| It's a Family Affair: Women, Poverty, and Welfare | 79 |
| Beyond the "Normal Family": A Cultural Critique of Women's Poverty | 87 |
| Bearing Witness to Teen Motherhood: The Politics of Violations of Girlhood | 107 |
| Family Matters, Work Matters? Poverty Among Women of Color and White Women | 121 |
| Working in America: The Female Immigrant Experience | 141 |
| Working Your Fingers to the Bone | 151 |
| Finding Voice: Building Beyond Community at Survival News | 163 |
| Women and the State: Ideology, Power, and Welfare | 183 |
| We "Don't" All Agree That Welfare Has Failed | 201 |
| We're All Workers: Why Can't We Talk? | 209 |
| Welfare: The Basement of the Wage Scale | 215 |
| Women and Public Employment Programs: What Has Worked, What Has Not, and What Is Needed | 223 |
| The Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State | 235 |
| For Better and For Worse: Women Against Women in the Welfare State | 269 |
| Dependent on the Kindness of Strangers: The Issues Behind "Welfare Reform" | 287 |
| Together We Are Getting Freedom | 295 |
| Welfare: What It's Not | 307 |
| Welfare Rights Organizing Saved My Life | 313 |
| Recognizing Mother Heroes | 327 |
| Now Is the Time: Mainstream Feminism's Statements on Welfare Rights | 337 |
| Colleges Can Help Women in Poverty | 341 |
| Why Every Woman in America Should Beware of Welfare Cuts | 349 |
| Speaking For Ourselves: A Lifetime of Welfare Rights Organizing | 355 |
| Apologies Don't Help | 367 |
| Punishing People Out of Poverty: Jobs, Welfare, and Community Change | 369 |
| About the Contributors | 391 |
| Pass the Ammunition: The Best Sources For Crying Out Loud | 399 |
| Knowing the Enemy: The Best Sources For Reading About the Right | 401 |
| Index | 403 |
Format: Paperback, 2nd ed., 414 pages
