The Missing Story of Ourselves: Women, Poverty and the Politics of Representation

The Missing Story of Ourselves is a nationally touring photographic andnarrative exhibit developed by low-income student parents, that challenges
and offers alternatives to conventional “stories” about class, poor women,
welfare and single parenthood in the United States.

Co-sponsored by the Policy History Program, the Department of
Feminist Studies, the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy,
and the Women’s Center.

Vivyan Adair is the Elihu Root Endowed Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and the Director of The ACCESS Project (serving welfare eligible student parents) at Hamilton College. She is the author of From Good Ma to Welfare Queen: A Genealogy of the Poor Woman in American Literature, Photography and Culture (2000) and the co-editor of Reclaiming Class: Women, Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education in America (2003), as well as articles in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Harvard Educational Review, Feminist Studies, Labor, Sociology, NWSA Journal, and the AAUW’s On Campus with Women In 2005, Dr. Adair was named the CASE Carnegie New York State Teacher of the Year.

For more information please visit www.hamilton.edu/college/access.

Adair’s biography on the Hamilton College website.

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