Women in Poverty
Wednesday, August 19 2009
by Amber Nimocks and Frank Stasio
uncpress.unc.edu
In considering what keeps the poor impoverished, gender is a factor often overlooked or even dismissed. Lisa Levenstein, an assistant professor of history at UNC-Greensboro, conducts an exhaustive exploration of the experience of poor women in her book "A Movement Without Marches." Her research zeros in on African-American women living in Philadelphia in the 1950s and '60s and dissects the social forces and government programs that kept them poor. She and Anne Burke, executive director of Urban Ministries of Wake County, join host Frank Stasio to talk about what shapes the lives of poor women, then and now.
