Without a net : the female experience of growing up working class

As someone who grew up, and still considers herself, working class, this anthology meant so much to me. Many books chronicle "the female experience" from a white, middle-class, suburban point-of-view, and I never really find myself in those books. Too often I find myself thinking, "It's not that way at all." I never felt women's perceived helplessness, or victimization. I just felt survive, survive, survive.

The essays in this book tackle the double-shot of being among the working poor, plus the sexism women face on a daily basis. I'd recommend it to anyone who feels left out of contemporary, middle-class feminism.

This is a collection of writings by women who grew up on the margins of society. There is much to think about and realize. I grew up without money or health insurance but there was some stolidity to our family life that kept us from despair (at least as children).