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No Room of Her Own - Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance (Hardcover, New)
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No Room of Her Own - Women's Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death, and Resistance (Hardcover, New)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
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This moving collection brings together the stories of fifteen women
who share the common experience of homelessness. Drawing on
interviews conducted in Seattle, Washington over the course of
nearly two decades, these accounts range across the United States,
from New York to Louisiana to Los Angeles. Included here are
memories of living 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 abuse in Harlan, Kentucky in the 1970s.
These women reveal the formidable struggles they face every day,
from catastrophic health issues to routine threats of physical and
sexual assault. But they also speak about their own intellectual
interests and spiritual lives, and their activism with
organizations such as Women in Black, which has held vigils to mark
the deaths and honor the lives of the hundreds who have died
homeless in the city that spawned Microsoft, Starbucks, and the WTO
protests. Illuminating the rich and complicated humanity of its
narrators, this book challenges stereotypes about homeless people
and provides jarring, unforgettable insights--taken from shelters,
drop-in centers, and the streets--into civil society in the United
States.
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