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Author Oliver, Vanessa, 1980-

Title Healing home : health and homelessness in the life stories of young women / Vanessa Oliver.

Imprint Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2013.

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Description 1 online resource (pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
data file rda
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Print version record.
Contents 1 The Story behind the Story: An Introduction -- 2 Once upon a Time: "Storying" Feminist Theory in Neoliberal Times -- 3 Girl, You'll Be a Woman ... Soon: A Narrative Project -- 4 Girls Aloud: Narratives and Self-Stories -- 5 Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Age, Space, Place, Gender, and Health -- 6 Seen and Not Heard: Negotiating Health and Wellness -- 7 Begging for Change: Barriers, Facilitators, and Implications for Policy and Practice -- 8 Living in a Material World: Challenges and Change -- 9 A Journey of a Thousand Miles: One Conclusion -- Youth Resources List.
Summary 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.
Language In English.
Subject Homelessness -- Health aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies.
Homeless women -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies.
Homeless women -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography.
Women -- Health and hygiene -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies.
Health services accessibility -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies.
Toronto (Ont.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Case studies.
Health services accessibility.
Social history.
Homeless women -- Health and hygiene -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies.
Health Services Accessibility
Ill-Housed Persons -- psychology
Healthcare Disparities
Social Conditions
Women -- psychology
Ontario
Itinérance -- Aspect sanitaire -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Études de cas.
Femmes sans-abri -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Études de cas.
Femmes sans-abri -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biographies.
Femmes sans-abri -- Santé et hygiène -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Études de cas.
Services de santé -- Accessibilité -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Études de cas.
Services de santé -- Accessibilité.
Histoire sociale.
social history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Social history
Homeless women -- Health and hygiene
Health services accessibility
Homeless women
Homelessness -- Health aspects
Social conditions
Women -- Health and hygiene
Ontario -- Toronto https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpTXwhyWg6TcM8tk47fv3
Accessibilité des services de santé -- Canada.
Sans-abri -- Aspect sanitaire -- Canada.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Case Reports
Biographies
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Other Form: Print version: 9781442645318 1442645318
ISBN 1442662352 (electronic bk.)
9781442662353 (electronic bk.)
9781442662360 (electronic bk.)
1442662360 (electronic bk.)
9781442645318 (bound)
1442645318 (bound)
9781442613447 (pbk.)
1442613440 (pbk.)
Standard No. DEBBG BV043099408
DEBSZ 421224819
AU@ 000054193421
AU@ 000067024888

 
    
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