Nobody Wants to Hear Our Truth: Homeless Women and Theories of the Welfare State

by Meredith L. Ralston

Through interviews with 20 homeless and addicted women over a time frame of five years, the author vividly demonstrates how sexual abuse, sexism, and racism are at the base of their problems and how both neo-conservative and neo-liberal theories and prescriptions for solving their problems are unworkable. The author considers the problems of homelessness and addiction and how these problems are linked. She continues by providing statistical profiles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313292922
• ISBN13: 9780313292927
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"