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Negotiating gender, work, and welfarebook chapter 1996 • Torruellas, Rosa M. et al.
Puerto Ricans (Mainland) • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This article is based on the life histories of sixteen Puerto Rican women whom the authors met in an adult literacy program. Although these women have been on welfare, they are not the mythical 'welfare moms' disparaged in the news media. Rather they...