"This little light of mine": Parent activists struggling for access to post-secondary education in Appalachian Kentucky

Shut Out: Low Income Mothers and Higher Education in Post-Welfare America

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 171-187

  Miewald, Christiana ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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