The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness

By Stephanie Golden

Book Overview

Drawing upon four years' experience as a volunteer in a shelter, Stephanie Golden offers a stark and startling new portrait of homeless women. Taking us inside shelters, out on the streets, and into the lives of homeless women, The Women Outside uses wide-ranging scholarship to integrate a number of perspectives--historical, sociological, psychological, literary, and mythic--in a wholly original, incisive investigation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520071581
• ISBN13: 9780520071582
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"