Healing Home
eBook - PDF

Healing Home

Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Healing Home

Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women

About this book

Applying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface: A Room of One’s Own
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1 The Story behind the Story: An Introduction
  5. 2 Once upon a Time: “Storying” Feminist Theory in Neoliberal Times
  6. 3 Girl, You’ll Be a Woman … Soon: A Narrative Project
  7. 4 Girls Aloud: Narratives and Self-Stories
  8. 5 Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Age, Space, Place, Gender, and Health
  9. 6 Seen and Not Heard: Negotiating Health and Wellness
  10. 7 Begging for Change: Barriers, Facilitators, and Implications for Policy and Practice
  11. 8 Living in a Material World: Challenges and Change
  12. 9 A Journey of a Thousand Miles: One Conclusion
  13. Youth Resources List
  14. References
  15. Index