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Author Fothergill, Alice.

Title Heads above water : gender, class, and family in the Grand Forks flood / Alice Fothergill
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) : illustrations
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction : Red River rising -- 2. Disaster strikes -- 3. Women's roles -- 4. Financial fallout -- 5. stigma of charity -- 6. Threats to mind and body -- 7. Family and religion : havens in a flooded world? -- 8. Domestic violence -- 9. re-creation of domestic culture -- 10. Everything in her path
Summary "Heads above Water tells the stories of women and their families who survived the Grand Forks, North Dakota, flood of 1997, one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. This book describes the challenges women faced and explores the importance of class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability in their disaster recovery. The women found themselves faced-to-face with social and familial upheaval, emotional and physical trauma, precarious economic and social status, and feelings of loss and violation."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Floods -- Social aspects -- North Dakota -- Grand Forks
Floods -- Red River Valley (Minn. and N.D.-Man.)
Women disaster victims -- North Dakota -- Grand Forks
Women -- North Dakota -- Grand Forks -- Social conditions
Sex role -- North Dakota -- Grand Forks
HISTORY -- State & Local.
Floods
Floods -- Social aspects
Sex role
Women disaster victims
Women -- Social conditions
North America -- Red River Valley (Minnesota and North Dakota and Manitoba)
North Dakota -- Grand Forks
Form Electronic book
ISBN 142373999X
9781423739999
9780791461570
0791461572
9780791461587
0791461580
9780791484722
0791484726