Title Love, sorrow, and rage : destitute women in a Manhattan residence / Alisse Waterston

Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages) Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; Prologue: An Urban Ethnography for Our Times; Prologue: An Urban Ethnography for Our Times; 1. Home, Some Place; 1. Home, Some Place; 2. Some Kind of Nobody; 2. Some Kind of Nobody; 3. Drinkin' and Druggin'; 3. Drinkin' and Druggin'; 4. Sorrow and Melancholia; 4. Sorrow and Melancholia; 5. Abuses of the Spirit; 5. Abuses of the Spirit; 6. Love and Other Intimacies; 6. Love and Other Intimacies; 7. Odd Women Out; 7. Odd Women Out; 8. Pistachio Nuts; 8. Pistachio Nuts; 9. A Madness in Me; 9. A Madness in Me; 10. Rage; 10. Rage Summary Poor women's lives and stories of the street, etched into a narrative of the heart Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index Notes Print version record Subject Homeless women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions Poor women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Homeless women -- Social conditions Poor women -- Social conditions Weibliche Obdachlose New York (State) -- New York New York Staat Form Electronic book ISBN 0585380813 9780585380810 9781439907771 1439907773

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