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Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class by Michelle Tea, Dorothy Allison, Diane Di Prima, Terri Griffith, Daisy Hernández, Frances Varian, Tara Hardy, Shawna Kenney, Siobhan Brooks, Terri Ryan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class about?

While many recent books have thoughtfully examined the plight of the working poor in America, none of the authors of these books is able to claim a working-class background, and there are associated methodological and ethical concerns raised when most of the explicatory writing on how poverty affects women and girls is done by educated, upper-class journalists. It was these concerns that prompted indie icon Michelle Tea—whose memoir The Chelsea Whistle details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts—to collect these fierce, honest, tender essays written by women who can’t go home to the suburbs when their assignment is over. These wide-ranging essays cover everything from stealing and selling blood to make ends meet, to "jumping" class, how if time equals money then being poor means waiting, surviving and returning to the ghetto and how feminine identity is shaped by poverty. Contributors include Dorothy Allison, Diane Di Prima, Terri Griffith, Daisy Hernández, Frances Varian, Tara Hardy, Shawna Kenney, Siobhan Brooks, Terri Ryan, and more.

Who reads Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class?

Author

Michelle Tea, Dorothy Allison, Diane Di Prima, Terri Griffith, Daisy Hernández, Frances Varian, Tara Hardy, Shawna Kenney, Siobhan Brooks, Terri Ryan

Publisher

Da Capo Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Women'S Studies, Social_sciences

Rating

4.11 / 5 (856 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14