Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, published an article in the British journal Sociology (December, 2005). Her article, "U.S. Working-Class/Poverty-Class Divides," was part of a special issue on "Class, Culture and
Identity" and was the only piece written by an American. Adair writes as a "'poverty-class scholar' articulating an identity, experience, marginality, and concomitant consciousness and epistemology distinct from that of working-class academics."
She argues "that only by including theories generated 'from experience outward,' that expose and critique the differential impact of class on women's lives without claiming an uncontestable authenticity, can we begin to understand the operations of class as it is lived, theorized and contested in contemporary society."
