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Struggling in the Land of Plenty
Race, Class, and Gender in the Lives of Homeless Families
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2019
Summary
At the conclusion of the twentieth century, the US economy was booming, but the gap between the rich and poor widened significantly in the 1990s, poverty rates among women and children skyrocketed, and there was an unprecedented rise in familial homelessness. Based on a four-year ethnographic study, Anne R. Roschelle examines how socially structured race, class, and gender inequality contributed to the rise in family homelessness and the devastating consequences for parents and their children. Struggling in the Land of Plenty analyzes the appalling conditions under which homeless women and children live, the violence endemic to their lives, the role of the welfare state in perpetrating poverty, and their never-ending struggle for survival.
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Edition
1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0076-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0077-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
201
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1 San Francisco: The Best City on Earth No access Pages 19 - 36
2 Home is Where the [Broken] Heart is No access Pages 37 - 54
3 The Unraveling Social Safety Net No access Pages 55 - 74
4 The Tattered Web of Kinship No access Pages 75 - 94
