"A roof over my head" : homeless women and the shelter industry /

"Based upon extensive ethnographic data that examines lives of homeless women who care for children and live in small shelters and transitional living centers. This ground-breaking study unveils the centrality of abuse and poverty in homeless women's lives and outlines societal responses t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Jean Calterone, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2016.
Edición:Second edition.
Temas:
Homeless women > Services for > United States.
Single mothers > Services for > United States.
Women's shelters > United States.
Homelessness > United States.
Victims of family violence > United States.
Femmes sans-abri > Services > États-Unis.
Mères de famille monoparentale > Services > États-Unis.
Maisons d'hébergement pour femmes > États-Unis.
Itinérance > États-Unis.
Victimes de violence familiale > États-Unis.
Homeless women > Services for.
Homelessness.
Single mothers > Services for.
Victims of family violence.
Women's shelters.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Causes of homelessness : homeless women speak
  • Geography of the homeless shelter
  • Homeless and battered women : parallel stories, opposing identities
  • Meanings and myths of homelessness : housed people speak
  • Meanings and myths of homelessness : homeless women speak.

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