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

Desiree Hellegers

Book 1 of Palgrave Studies in Oral History

Language: English

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: Oct 20, 2011

Description:

This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, 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 in particular. **