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BOOKS

Abramovitz, Mimi. Under attack, fighting back : women on welfare in the United States. New ed. New York : Monthly Review Press, 2000. [HV699 .A426 2000]
Albelda, Randy Pearl and Chris Tilly. Glass ceilings and bottomless pits : women’s work, women’s poverty. Boston : South End Press, 1997. [HV95 .A5988 1997] Publisher's description.
Berman, Tressa Lynn. Circle of goods : women, work and welfare in a reservation community. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003. Publisher's description.
Cobble, Dorothy Sue. The other women’s movement : workplace justice and social rights in modern America. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004. Publisher's description, table of contents, introduction.
Edin, Kathryn and Laura Levin. Making ends meet : how single mothers survive welfare and lowwage work. New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1997. [HQ759.915 .E34 1997]
Figart, Deborah; Ellen Mutari; and Marilyn Power. Living wages, equal wages : gender and labor market policies in the United States. (Routledge IAFEE advances in feminist economics). New York : Routledge, 2002. Publisher's description.
Freeman, Carla. High tech and high heels in the global economy : women, work, and pink-collar identities in the Caribbean. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000. Publisher's description.
Global woman : nannies, maids, and sex workers in the new economy. Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2003. [HD6072 .G55 2003] Publisher's description. Table of contents.
Hays, Sharon. Flat broke with children : women in the age of welfare reform. New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. [ HV95 .H36 2003] Publisher's description. View a 30-minute "Faculty Author Presentation" on this book by its author, in Dec. 2003, at the University of Virginia.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. The second shift. With a new introduction (originally published: 1989). New York : Penguin Books, 2003. [HQ536 .H63 2003] Publisher's description.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. Domestica : immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of affluence. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001. Publisher's description and Chapter 1.
Howe, Louise Kapp. Pink collar workers : inside the world of women’s work. New York : Putnam, 1977. [HD6095 .H68 1977]
Kessler-Harris, Alice. In pursuit of equity : women, men, and the quest for economic citizenship in 20^th century America. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. [HQ1236.5.U6 K475 2001] Publisher's description.
Mastracci, Sharon H. Breaking out of the pink-collar ghetto : policy solutions for non-college women. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2004. Publisher's description, table of contents..
Nelson, Robert L. Legalizing gender inequality : courts, markets, and unequal pay for women in America. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999. [KF3464 .N45 1999] Publisher's description.
Reclaiming class : women, poverty, and the promise of higher education in America. Edited by Vivyan Campbell Adair and Sandra L. Dahlberg. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003. Publisher's description.
Rogers, Jackie Krasas. Temps : the many faces of the changing workplace. Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, 2000. Publisher's description.
Romero, Mary. Maid in the U.S.A. 10^th anniversary ed. New York : Routledge, 2002. Publisher's description.
Without a net : the female experience of growing up working class. Edited by Michelle Tea. Emeryville, Calif. : Seal Press, 2003. [HD6095 .W63 2003]
Women and welfare : theory and practice in the United States and Europe. Edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Ulrike Liebert. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2001. Publisher's description.
Women at the margins : neglect, punishment, and resistance. Edited by Josefina Figueira-McDonough and Rosemary C. Sarri. New York : Haworth Press, 2002. Publisher's description, table of contents, Chapter 1.
Women’s Agenda Conference (2002 : Washington, D.C.). Women’s agenda : ideas to reform institutions. Dallas : National Center for Policy Analysis, 2002. Conference website.
Zucchino, David. Myth of the welfare queen : a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s portrait of women on the line. New York : Scribner, 1997. [HV91 .Z85 1997]

FILMS

Le Jardin Oublie: La vie et l'oeuvre d'Alice Guy-Blache (The Lost Garden: The life and Work of Alice Guy-Blache). Director: Marquise Lepage. National Film Board of Canada, 1995.
Reel Models: The First Women of Film. Susan and Christopher Koch. Executive producers: Barbra Streisand, Cis Corman, Marc Juris and Jessica Falcon. American Movie Classics, 2000.
America's First Women Filmmakers: Alice Guy Blache & Lois Weber. VHS. Library of Congress/Smithsonian Video, 1995.
How to Make An American Quilt. Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse, Writers: Whitney Otto (novel), Jane Anderson. DVD. Universal City Studios, Inc. and Amblin Entertainment, Inc., 1995.
Antonia's Line. Writer/Director: Marleen Gorris. First Look Pictures, 1995.
Daughters of the Dust. Writer/Director: Julie Dash. DVD. Geechee Girls, 1991. (The script is available at the Reserve Desk.)
The Tango Lesson. Writer/Director: Sally Potter. VHS. Sony Pictures Classics, 1997.
Lost in Translation. Writer/Director: Sofia Coppola. DVD. Universal Studios, 2004.
The Governess. Writer/Director: Sandra Goldbacher. DVD. Sony Pictures Classics, 1997.
Sex in the City and Desperate Housewives. Excerpts from TV shows.
Maya Deren, Vol. 1: Experimental Films, 1943-1959. Mystic Fire Video, 1986.
Moving On. Writer/Director: Mara Alper. 1997.
Thank You and Goodnight. Writer/Director: Jan Oxenberg. Red Wagon Films Inc., 1991