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A Roof Over My Head Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry / Jean Calterone Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Jean Calterone, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Victims of family violence--United States.
- Victims of family violence.
- Homelessness--United States.
- Homelessness.
- Women's shelters--United States.
- Women's shelters.
- Single mothers--Services for--United States.
- Single mothers.
- Homeless women--Services for--United States.
- Homeless women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2016.
- Summary:
- Based upon extensive ethnographic data that examines lives of women experiencing homelessness 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 the lives of women experiencing homelessness and outlines societal responses that should be more effective.--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781607326151
- 1607326159
- OCLC:
- 960210123
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