Preface What It's All About?
Introduction Scenes from a Life and from Lives
Why Me?
How to Read This Book and How the Lives of the Poor Have Been Read, or, Why You?
The Problem of Representing the Poor
Transclass: Endo- and Exo-writers
Biocultural Myths of the Poor Body
Female Sex Workers
The Encounter, or, the Object Talks Back
They Got It Right Now?
What Is to Be Done? Endings and Beginnings.