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2016

Format:	Book
Author:	Williams, Jean Calterone, 1966- author.
Title:	"A roof over my head" : homeless women and the shelter industry / Jean Calterone Williams.
Edition:	Second edition.
Publisher, Date:	Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2016.
Description:	243 pages ; 23 cm
Summary:	"Based upon extensive ethnographic data that examines lives of homeless women who care for children and live in small shelters and transitional living centers. This ground-breaking study unveils the centrality of abuse and poverty in homeless women's lives and outlines societal responses that should be more effective"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Homeless women -- Services for -- United States. Single mothers -- Services for -- United States. Women's shelters -- United States. Homelessness -- United States. Victims of family violence -- United States.
Other Title:	Homeless women and the shelter industry
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.
Contents:	Causes of homelessness : homeless women speak -- Geography of the homeless shelter -- Homeless and battered women : parallel stories, opposing identities -- Meanings and myths of homelessness : housed people speak -- Meanings and myths of homelessness : homeless women speak.
LCCN:	2016029076
ISBN:	9781607325277
Other Number:	952942920
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	615685
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Call Number:	362.839 Williams

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