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

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.

Author: D. Hellegers
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/20/2011
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230116573

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2012

About the Author
DESIREE HELLEGERS is Co-Director of the Center for Social and Environmental Justice, Associate Chair and Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver, Canada. She is an active member of various advocacy organizations and her writing has appeared in such publications as Counterpunch.