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

by Desiree Hellegers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230116582
• ISBN13: 9780230116580
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"