Pt. 1. Real Life Outside. The Dwelling Place. Why They Were Outside. Life on the Street. The Effects of the Relief System. Ten Years Later. Community -- Pt. 2. Mythmaking -- Pt. 3. Homeless Women Have Always Existed. The Ancient World through the Eighteenth Century. The Nineteenth Century in Britain and the United States. The Twentieth Century through the Depression. Since World War II -- Pt. 4. In Praise of Folly. The Relativity of Madness. Mental Illness and Sex Roles. Daddy's Good Girls. The Modern Margerys -- Pt. 5. At the Margins. The Dangers of the Margin. Modes of Distancing. The Witch Image: Subversive Female Power. Bringing Them Inside
Analysis
Women Homelessness
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-310) and index
