Tina, if you want to hear from women in poverty directly, then you should
get WISE's book "Policies of Exclusion, Poverty & Health: Stories from the
Front" (link below). The book contains the stories of 21 women living in
poverty in one Canadian community. Each woman tells her story in her own
words, most stories begin in childhood, and all of them expose the cause(s)
of the storyteller's slide into poverty. 

The book includes two reports, also in the first-person and so from the
women's perspective. The first report draws out the dominant issues found in
our stories. The second report outlines our recommendations for positive
change and includes encouragement and advice to other women in poverty.

The book has been recommended by Dietitians of Canada as a key source for
understanding the complexity of poverty.

Some unsolicited feedback:
- I wish I were still teaching sociology; I would assign this book. It tells
women's stories in ways that no one can ignore, and it drives home the major
features of vulnerable women's lives. You have done the best kind of
qualitative research.
- I thought the book brilliant.
- On the way to work this morning I tried to think of words to express
simply the tumble of emotions, concerns, guilts, etc. that the stories
evoked in me. And the admiration, the humility - for would I be so
resourceful, so grittily determined if I had been faced with such adversity
and stumbled, and stumbled, and stumbled?... Before reading this, I would
have said I grew up poor. But I don't know the meaning of the word!! And
then the hope and excitement expressed in phase two [our recommendations
report]. This is a tremendously powerful work. All of those involved have
created something that will affect every reader profoundly to the core. 
That's where the change will start.


--Ocean

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Chrystal Ocean, Coordinator
Wellbeing through Inclusion Socially & Economically
http://www.wise-bc.org/

TO ORDER - Policies of Exclusion, Poverty & Health: Stories from the Front
http://www.wise-bc.org/CVProject/book.html

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