Author: Hemalata C. DandekarPublisher: G. Wahr
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Shelter, Women, and Development
Author: Hemalata C. DandekarPublisher: G. Wahr
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Safe Haven
Author: Rae BridgmanPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802080844
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In this groundbreaking work, urban anthropologist Rae Bridgman, in careful and intimate detail, explores the perspectives of the women who work and live at Savard's, a unique shelter for homeless women. Bridgman uses the design and development of Savard's - a housing model developed by women for women - as an opportunity to document the project's original vision and what happened once it opened. There are few rules at Savard's. Women may come and go as they wish, and referrals to other services are made only when a woman has indicated interest in taking action on her own behalf. It is a model that aims to provide a safe haven for the chronically homeless. The study traces the evolution of this type of shelter, providing qualitative research and useful analysis for academics, policy-makers, service providers, and activists. Based on many hours of participant observation as well as interviews and staff records, Safe Haven presents a distinct picture of the chronically homeless and those on the frontlines of this lifesaving service.
Development of Domestic Violence Shelters as Social Service Delivery Systems
Author: Gloria Duran AguilarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abused women
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
America's Shame
Author: Barbara A. ArrighiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313388296
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Rejecting those who urge a bootstrap approach to people living in extreme poverty on the edge of society, sociologist Barbara Arrighi makes an eloquent, compassionate plea for empathy and collective responsibility toward those for whom either the boots or the straps are missing. This book further offers solutions in consciousness raising, community collaboration, and informed, responsible public policy. The book is a critique of a system that purports to serve yet sometimes impedes the welfare of those who are in need of the basic elements for survival, including affordable shelter. It analyzes the structural factors of poverty and the social psychological costs of being poor and lacking a home. Utilizing interview findings from families who have lived in a shelter in northern Kentucky and from staff members, the book examines the degrading effects of shelter life on women's self-respect and children's development. Rather than an examination of individual pathologies leading to lack of shelter, it centers on women and children living in shelters and offers a sociological study of poverty and the family.
Women and Shelter
Author: More Than Shelter
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Unsheltered Woman
Author: Randall HinshawPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351302183
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Defining the "unsheltered woman" and her needs is a complicated task. Regardless of the roots of the condition, a significant number of women are not being housed as well as they could be. Women are not the only victims of an inadequately met housing demand; their families suffer as well. This volume provides sources of information for understanding which women are ill-housed and why their shelter is substandard.Birch reviews basic demographic issues and trends in household formation, using census information to reveal which groups in the country and in New York City have housing problems. The essays then turn to the needs of special groups of women: elderly women, working-class women, and professional women - married and single. Later essays investigate locational and design issues related to women's concerns: a model case study in Denver; high-rise housing in New York City; neighborhood housing for the elderly in Manhattan.The author has gathered together more than twenty of the top professionals in the field including Susan Cotts Watkins, Evelyn S. Mann, May Engler, Roberta R. Spohn, Olivia Schieffelin Nordberg, Barbara Behrens Gers, Susan Saegert, Elizabeth Mackintosh, Gwendolyn Wright, Dolores Hayden, Jacqueline Leavitt, Ronnie Feit, Jan Peterson, Michael Mostoller, Clara Fox, Celine G. Marcus, Jane Margolies, Lynda Simmons, Judith Edelman, Rebecca A. Lee, and Michael A. Stegman. The Unsheltered Woman is significant not only for women, but also for housing policy in America. Until now, very little research has focused on gender policy issues, as such it should be read by all urban planners, policy makers, and housing authorities.
Women in Human Settlements Development
Author: Publisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9789211312638
Category : Housing development
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Las Hermanas Women's Shelter
Author: Kelly Jean CarlsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Roof Over My Head, Second Edition
Author: Jean Calterone WilliamsPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607325276
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"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.