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The women of Katrina : how gender, race, and class matter in an American disaster / edited by Emmanuel David and Elaine Enarson.
- Title
- The women of Katrina : how gender, race, and class matter in an American disaster / edited by Emmanuel David and Elaine Enarson.
- Publication
- Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, c2012.
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- Description
- xxv, 264 p. : map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The transformative event known as Katrina exposed long-standing social inequalities. While debates rage about race and class relations in New Orleans and the Katrina diaspora, gender remains curiously absent from public discourse and scholarly analysis. This volume draws on original research and firsthand narratives from women in diverse economic, political, ethnic, and geographic contexts to portray pre-Katrina vulnerabilities, gender concerns in post-disaster housing and assistance, and women's collective struggles to recover from this catastrophe. From publisher description.
- Subject
- Women
- Social Conditions
- Social Class
- Prejudice
- Disasters
- Cyclonic Storms
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005 > Social aspects
- Disasters > Social aspects
- Women > United States > Social conditions
- Sexism > United States
- Racism > United States
- Social stratification > United States
- Disasters > United States
- Prejudice > United States
- Social Class > United States
- Social Conditions > United States
- Women > United States
- New Orleans
- United States
- Louisiana
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- INCITE! Statement on Hurricane Katrina / INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence -- Noticing gender (or not) in disasters / Joni Seager -- Women and girls last? Averting the second post-Katrina disaster / Elaine Enarson -- A feminist perspective on Katrina / Loretta J. Ross -- Survivng Hurricane Katrina / Mary Gehman -- We cannot forget them / Annette Marquis -- Help!" a little girl cries: women and children in catastrophic times / Denny Taylor -- Unexpected necessities: inside Charity Hospital / Ruth Berggren -- "We like to think Houma women are very strong" / Brenda Dardar Robichaux -- Coastal women for change: Biloxi, Mississippi / Sharon Hanshaw -- "Estaba reclamando mi sudor" (I was demanding what I had earned with my sweat) / "Antonia" -- Setting the stage for disaster: women in New Orleans before and after Katrina / Beth Willinger and Janna Knight -- Out of sight, out of mind: women's abilities and disabilities in crisis / Elizabeth Davis and Kelly Rouba -- Factors influencing evacuation decisions among high-risk pregnant and postpartum women / Marianne E. Zotti, Van T. Tong, Lyn Kieltyka and Renee Brown-Bryant -- Mothering after a disaster: the experiences of black single mothers displaced by Hurricane Katrina / Megan Reid -- State policy and disaster assistance: listening to women / Susan Sterett -- The Katrina difference: African American women's networks and poverty in New Orleans after Katrina / Jacquelyn Litt, Althea Skinner, and Kelley Robinson -- Doubly displaced: women, public housing, and spatial access after Katrina / Jane M. Henrici, Allison Suppan Helmuth, and Angela Carlberg -- Gender, race, and place attachment: the recovery of a historic neighborhood in coastal Mississippi / Mia Charlene White -- Gender and the landscape of community work before and after Katrina / Pamela Jenkins -- Battered women's shelters in New Orleans: recovery and transformation / Bethany L. Brown --
- Listening for gender in Katrina's Jewish voices / Judith Rosenbaum -- Building coalitions and rebuilding Versailles: Vietnamese American women's environmental work after Hurricane Katrina / Gennie Thi Nguyen -- Cultural trauma, memory, and gendered collective action: the case of women of the storm following Hurricane Katrina / Emmanuel David -- Grounded in faith, inspired to Action: bayou women own their own recovery / Kristina J. Peterson and Richard Krajeski -- Gendered disaster practice and policy / Brenda D. Phillips -- Critical disjunctures: disaster research, social inequality, gender, and Hurricane Katrina / Kathleen Tierney.
- ISBN
- 9780826517982 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
- 0826517986 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
- 9780826517999 (pbk. edition : alk. paper)
- 0826517994 (pbk. edition : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011009306
- OCLC
- 706804044
- SCSB-11526890
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library