Heads above water : gender, class, and family in the Grand Forks flood / Alice Fothergill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fothergill, Alice.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Floods--Social aspects--North Dakota--Grand Forks.

Floods.

Floods--Red River Valley (Minn. and N.D.-Man.).

Women disaster victims--North Dakota--Grand Forks.

Women disaster victims.

Women--North Dakota--Grand Forks--Social conditions.

Women.

Sex role--North Dakota--Grand Forks.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Heads above Water tells the stories of women and their families who survived the Grand Forks, North Dakota, flood of 1997, one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. This book describes the challenges women faced and explores the importance of class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability in their disaster recovery. The women found themselves face-to-face with social and familial upheaval, emotional and physical trauma, precarious economic and social status, and feelings of loss and violation. By exploring the experiences of these women, author Alice Fothergill contributes to broader sociological discussions about women's changing roles, the stigma of needing and receiving assistance, family relationships under stress, domestic violence, downward mobility, and the importance of "home" to one's identity and sense of self. Heads above Water offers poignant insight into women's everyday lives in an extraordinary time.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Red River Rising

Disaster Strikes

Women’s Roles

Financial Fallout

The Stigma of Charity

Threats to Mind and Body

Family and Religion: Havens in a Flooded World?

Domestic Violence

The Re-Creation of Domestic Culture

Everything in Her Path

Notes on Methodology

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780791484722

0791484726

9781423739999

142373999X

OCLC:

62365146