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- catalog abstract ""Based upon extensive ethnographic data, "A Roof Over My Head" examines the lives of homeless women who often care for children and live in small shelters and transitional living centers. The author draws upon interviews with homeless women, interviews with housed people, and, finally, evaluations of shelter services, philosophies, and policies to get at the causes and social construction of homelessness. "A Roof Over My Head" is a ground-breaking study that unveils the centrality of abuse and poverty in homeless women's lives and outlines ways in which societal responses can and should be more effective."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12801701.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Based upon extensive ethnographic data, "A Roof Over My Head" examines the lives of homeless women who often care for children and live in small shelters and transitional living centers. The author draws upon interviews with homeless women, interviews with housed people, and, finally, evaluations of shelter services, philosophies, and policies to get at the causes and social construction of homelessness. "A Roof Over My Head" is a ground-breaking study that unveils the centrality of abuse and poverty in homeless women's lives and outlines ways in which societal responses can and should be more effective."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Causes of Homelessness: Homeless Women Speak -- Geography of the Homeless Shelter -- Meanings and Myths of Homelessness: Housed People Speak -- Meanings and Myths of Homelessness: Homeless Women Speak -- Homeless and Battered Women: Parallel Stories, Opposing Identities.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-204) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 212 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Roof over my head".".
- catalog identifier "0870817310 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Roof over my head".".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado,".
- catalog relation "Roof over my head".".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "362.83/086/942 21".
- catalog subject "HV4505 .W53 2003".
- catalog subject "Homeless women Services for United States.".
- catalog subject "Single mothers Services for United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Causes of Homelessness: Homeless Women Speak -- Geography of the Homeless Shelter -- Meanings and Myths of Homelessness: Housed People Speak -- Meanings and Myths of Homelessness: Homeless Women Speak -- Homeless and Battered Women: Parallel Stories, Opposing Identities.".
- catalog title ""A roof over my head" : homeless women and the shelter industry / Jean Calterone Williams.".
- catalog type "text".