No Room of Her Own Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance

Name: No Room of Her Own Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance
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ISBN: 9780230116580

ISBN-10: 0230116582

ISBN-13: 9780230116580

Edition: 2011

Authors: Desiree Hellegers

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This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women who share the common experience of homelessness. While all the interviews were conducted in Seattle, Washington between 1991 and 2008, the women's stories zigzag across the country, from Baltimore and New York City, to Louisiana and Kentucky, to Los Angeles and San Francisco. The narrators recount stories of growing up in the south at the tail end of Jim Crow, of growing up gay and Black in the Pacific Northwest in the 1960s, and of surviving childhood molestation in Harlan, Kentucky in the 1970s. The stories illuminate the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and…

Book details

List price: $35.50
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 9/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 218
Size: 5.93" wide x 9.30" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English