Listening to the Voices of Poor WomenISBN: 978-1-4051-0081-6
Paperback
242 pages
January 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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Bernice Lott is Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women's
Studies at the University of Rhode Island. She received her
university's Excellence Award for scholarly achievement and an
honorary degree in Humane Letters. She served as president o APA's
Division 35, and the Association for Women in Psychology. Among
these honors was receipt of the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award. She is
the author of numerous theoretical and empirical articles,
chapters, and books on social learning, gender, and social issues.
Her areas of research interest are interpersonal communication;
gender, ethnicity, and social class; and the social psychology of
poverty.
Heather Bullock is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She conducts research on classist discrimination and the relationship between attributions for poverty and support for welfare policies. She has a strong interest in public policy and spent a year as an APA Congressional Fellow with the Democratic Office of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. As a legislative fellow, she studied the impact of welfare reform and assisted with the development of antihunger, violence prevention, and early education legislation.