CRITICAL BOOK ANALYSIS

CRITICAL BOOK ANALYSIS
(Don’t Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Stories of Women and Girls in Poor America)
Your Critical Book Analysis should be around 5 pages-long, Century Schoolbook, 12 pt-font, 1
inch all around, double-spaced and in APA format (check APA Style Guide on my website for
details). The paper should be presented in an organized and well-thought manner.

Please reflect and discuss the following quotes. You are expected to READ the whole book. You
are also expected to use your Sociological Imagination.
Please do NOT confuse opinion (personal feelings) with reflection (taking into account
facts, statistics, prior research findings etc..).
Use the information you read in the book and your sociological imagination to discuss
and reflect on the following ideas.

Please answer the following 2 questions.
1. Thinking about today’s economic downturn, reflect and discuss the following quote
from Edin on page 182 that, welfare is inextricably bound to opportunities in the labor
market If political will determines that poor, single-parent families should be lifted
out of so-called dependency through work, policymakers must determine which jobs at
what wages are needed to bring these welfare mothers and their families into the
economic mainstream.

2. Thinking about the structure of this book, and the stigma associated with being on
welfare, reflect and discuss the following quote from Dodson on page 218 that, some
women demanded their history back As both girls and grown women pointed out,
women from low-income families often need hearts of iron to make it, to move on from
the welfare years. But they saw no public archive of this truth, no truth-telling
commission about the history of their own lives.

You will be graded according to the organization, spelling, grammar and articulation of your
analysis, as well as the effort put into this assignment.