- Description
- 1 online resource (243 pages)
- Summary
- "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 that should be more effective"--Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- roof over my head" (Online)
- Alternative Title
- roof over my head" (Online)
- Homeless women and the shelter industry
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2016029076
- OCLC
- ssj0001723414
- Author
Williams, Jean Calterone, 1966-
- Title
"A roof over my head" [electronic resource] : homeless women and the shelter industry / Jean Calterone Williams.
- Imprint
Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2016.
- Edition
Second edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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