No room of her own: women's stories of homelessness, life, death, and resistance

This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteenwomen, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses.It also challenges liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women inparticular. DESIREE HELLEGERS is Co-Director of the Center for Social and Environmental Justice, Associate Chair and Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver, Canada. She is an active member of various advocacyorganizations and her writing has appeared in such publications as Counterpunch. INDICE: Mama Pam - Annamarie Tailfeathers - Elizabeth Thatcher - Sweet Pea- Debra Martinson - Anitra Freeman - Roxane Roberts - Loann Winston - Mona Caudill Joyner - Jessie Pedro - Marie - Janice Connelly - Flower - Arnette Adams- Marlowe

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11657-3
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 236
• Fecha Publicación: 14/10/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés