|
 |
All orders
shipped by
airmail!
Click here for our
Shipping Policies!
| |
 | | |
"If it is true that words have meanings, why don't we throw away words and keep just the meanings?"
- Ludwig Wittgenstein via Anatol Holt
| | | |
|
ZIN Product Number: 10631332
| eBay (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 46 | | Price Range: | | $0.09 - 0.09 | | | | Craigslist (last 12 months) | | Classifieds: | | 10 | | Price Range: | | $0.01 - 0.05 | | | | Amazon Used (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 95 | | Price Range: | | $0.09 - 0.09 | | | | ZooScape (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 0 | | Price Range: | | N/A | | | | | | Google listings (non-affiliate) | | 124 | | MSN listings (non-affiliate) | | 35 | | Yahoo listings (non-affiliate) | | 77 | | |
| | 
| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 339 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 0029190959
Release Date: Jan 2, 1993
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
The author chronicles the lives of twenty homeless women. Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
In 1967, Elliot Liebow, writing as a participant-observer, published Tally's Corner, a pathbreaking study of black streetcorner life. Coming at a time when Americans were just beginning to understand the moral demand for improvement in the lives of urban blacks, Liebow's book made its readers see for the first time the human reality behind the stereotypes and myths about black life. Now, in Tell Them Who I Am, his first book in over 20 years, Liebow similarly dispels myths surrounding homelessness, revealing the actual diversity, humanity, and dignity that lie behind popular images of the homeless. In Tell Them Who I Am, Liebow carefully investigates and documents the patterns and routines of homeless women. These are not the most visible homeless, Liebow tells us, not the "throwaway" homeless we see on the street. Rather they are members of the larger but less visible majority of people who are homeless but who still retain connections with society. These are people who have fallen into homelessness for many reasons; some may rise again, and some will sink. Their daily lives are thus a struggle not merely to survive but to keep alive their hope - and their humanity - in the face of what for many are insuperable obstacles. Through the women's own words and Liebow's thoughtful and sympathetic commentary, Tell Them Who I Am examines every aspect of their lives; the variety of jobs the women have, as well as the obstacles which prevent some from obtaining employment; relationships with family members, friends, and lovers, both within and outside the shelter; conflicts with the shelter staff and the need to maintain a sense of privacy in a public environment; the frustrations of dealing with an inefficient and underfunded public bureaucracy; and the struggle to maintain a fragile sense of community in the face of such destructive forces as racism and mental illness. Elliot Liebow brings the maturity of a lifetime's work as one of America's most sensitive and admire
| | | | Annotation
In 1984, Liebow left his position as director of anthropological research at the National Institute of Mental Health to undergo treatment for cancer. He also volunteered to work at local soup kitchens and homeless shelters, where he conducted the research for this book. Here the author of Tally's Corner investigates and documents the patterns and routines of homeless women.
| |  | | |
 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 1 Average Rating:
I am Grace. My true life story.
-- Ethel Frear, secretary - Nat'l Instit. of Health, January 20, 1999
Also Recommended: Dr. Liebow's first book sold 900,000 copies and is still used as a text in the colleges.
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
The renowned anthropologist and author of the classic Tally's Corner gives us another book written in the participant-observer mode. This one documents the patterns and routines of homeless women: how they meet their needs for shelter, food, religious solace, and companionship
| |  | | | Find similiar books in these subject areas:
All Topics > Nonfiction > Current Events > Poverty > Social Services & Welfare
All Topics > Nonfiction > Social Sciences > Sociology > General
All Topics > Nonfiction > Women's Studies > General
| | | | These specific items are very similiar:
Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women , by Elliot Liebow
| | | | | | People like you also bought:
The Homeless, by Christopher Jencks
Down and out in America: The Origins of Homelessness, by Peter H. Rossi
Unknown Title
Shadow Women: Homeless Women's Survival Stories, by
The Politics of Readjustment: Vietnam Veterans since the War, by Wilbur J. J. Scott
Ecological Policy and Politics in Developing Countries: Economic Growth, Democracy, and Environment
No Place to Be: Voices of Homeless Children, by Judith Berck
Crossing the Border: Encounters between Homeless People and Outreach Workers, by Michael Rowe
Unknown Title
| | | | | | Keywords
Case studies, Homelessness, Shelters for the homeless, Washington Region, Homeless women, Homeless women, Washington Region, Case studies, Shelters for the homeless, Homelessness, Homeless Persons, Sociology Of Women, Sociology, Political Science, Social Services & Welfare, Women's Studies - General
| |
| |
| | | |
Make $1 per sale -
Link to ZooScape.com! | |
