The Women Outside

Meanings and Myths of Homelessness

Author: Stephanie Golden
ISBN: 9780520084384

Drawing upon four years' experience as a volunteer in a shelter, Stephanie Golden offers a stark and startling new portrait of homeless women. Taking us inside shelters, out on the streets, and into the lives of homeless women, The Women Outside uses wide-ranging scholarship to integrate a number of perspectives--historical, sociological, psychological, literary, and mythic--in a wholly original, incisive investigation. Drawing upon four years' experience as a volunteer in a shelter, Stephanie Golden offers a stark and startling new portrait of homeless women. Taking us inside shelters, out on the streets, and into the lives of homeless women, The Women Outside uses wide-ranging scholarship to integrate a number of perspectives--historical, sociological, psychological, literary, and mythic--in a wholly original, incisive investigation.

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 1993-08-01

Subjects: History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Social Science / Sociology / General, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Class/Economics)