"Like a prison!": Homeless women's narratives of surviving shelter

Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 115-135

  DeWard, Sarah L ^a   Moe, Angela M ^b  

^a New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence ^*  (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Homelessness; Institutionalization; Poverty; Shelter; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349110669     PISSN: 01915096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Abramowitz, M. (2005). Welfare reform in the United States: Gender, race and class matter. Critical Social Policy, 26 (2), 336-364.
2. Arrighi, B. A. (1997). America's shame: Women and children in shelter and the degradation of family roles. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
3. Averitt, S. S. (2003). Homelessness is not a choice! The plight of homeless women with preschool children living in temporary shelters. Journal of Family Nursing, 9 (1), 79-100.
4. Baker, P. L. & Carson, A. (1999). "I take care of my kids": Mothering practices of substance-abusing women. Gender & Society, 13 (3), 347-363.
5. Bogard, C. J. (1998). The rhetoric of domination and its strategic use by homeless mothers. Sociological Spectrum, 18 (3), 229-262.
6. Breese, J. R., & Feltey, K. M. (1996). Role exit from home to homeless. Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, 24, 67-76.
7. Center for Law and Social Policy [CLASP]. (2006). Federal budget reconciliation: Selected resources. Washington DC: CLASP. Retrieved from http://www.clasp.org/NewsFlash/Reconcil/.
8. Charmaz, K. (2006). Constructing grounded theory: A practical guide through qualitative analysis. London, England: Sage.
9. DiBlasio, F. A., & Belcher, J. R. (1995). Gender differences among homeless persons: Special services for women. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 65 (1), 131-137.
10. Dordick, G. (1996). More than refuge: The social world of the homeless shelter. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 24 (4), 373-404.
11. Erickson, J. (2005/06). Legislative update. National NOW (National Organization for Women) Times, Winter Issue. Washington, DC: NOW. Retrieved from http://www.now.org/nnt/winter05-06/legislativeupdate.html.
12. Ferraro, K. J. (1981). Processing battered women. Journal of Family Issues, 2 (4), 415-539.
13. Gibson-Davis, C. M., Magnuson, K., Gennetian, L. A., & Duncan, G. J. (2005). Employment and risk of domestic abuse among lowincome women. Journal of Marriage and Family, 67, 1149-1168.
14. Goffman, E. (1961). Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. New York, NY: Anchor Books.
15. Gounis, K. (1992). The manufacture of dependency: Shelterization revisited. New England Journal of Public Policy, 8 (1), 685-693.
16. Grella, C. (1994). Contrasting a shelter and day center for homeless mentally ill women: Four patterns of service use. Community Mental Health Journal, 30, 3-16.
17. Guba, E. (1981). Criteria for assessing the trustworthiness of naturalistic inquiries. Education, Communication and Technology, 29 (2), 75-91.
18. Hagen, J. L. (1987). Gender and homelessness. Social Work, 32, 312-316.
19. Harding, S. (1991). Whose science? Whose knowledge? Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
20. Hartsock, N. (1987). The feminist standpoint: Developing a ground for a specifically feminist historical materialism. In S. Harding (Ed.), Feminism and methodology (pp. 157-190). Milton Keynes, Great Britain: Open University Press.
21. Holden, D. (1997). "On equal ground": Sustaining virtue among volunteers in a homeless shelter. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 26 (2), 117-145.
22. Hopper, K. (2003). Reckoning with homelessness. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
23. Kissane, R. J. (2007). How do faith-based organizations compare to secular providers? Nonprofit directors' and poor women's assessments of FBOs. Journal of Poverty, 11 (4), 91-115.
24. Kissane, R. J. (2006). Responsible but uninformed? Nonprofit executive and program directors' knowledge of welfare reform. Social Service Review, June, 322-345.
25. Kissane, R. J. (2004). "Do you see what I see?" Nonprofit and resident perceptions of urban neighborhood problems. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 33 (2), 311-333.
26. Lindsey, E. W. (1998). The impact of homelessness and shelter life on family relationships. Family Relations, 7 (3), 243-252.
27. Marvasti, A. B. (2002). Constructing the service-worthy homeless through narrative editing. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 31 (5), 615-651.
28. Moe, A. M. (2009). A sheltered life: Observations on a domestic violence shelter. In V. Garcia, J. Clifford, & R. Muraskin (Eds.), Female victims of crime: Reality reconsidered (pp. 180-199). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
29. Morgan, P. (2002). A permanent solution. Journal of Housing and Community Development, 59 (6), 19-22.
30. Mowbray, C. T., & Thrasher, S. P. (1995). A strengths perspective: An ethnographic study of homeless women with children. Health and Social Work, 20 (2), 93-101.
31. Mulder, M. (2004). Faith-based homeless shelters and hyper- institutionalization: A case study. Michigan Sociological Review, 18, 135-165.
32. Saleebey, D. (2005). The strengths perspective in social work practice. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
33. Snow, D. A., & Anderson, L. (1993). Down on their luck: A study of homeless street people. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
34. Snow, D. A., & Anderson, L. (1987). Identity work among the homeless: The verbal construction and avowal of personal identities. American Journal of Sociology, 92, 1336-1371.
35. Stark, L. R. (1994). The shelter as "total institution." American Behavioral Scientist, 37, 553-562.
36. Tessler, R., Rosenheck, R., & Gamache, G. (2004). Gender differences in self-reported reasons for homelessness. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 10 (3), 243-254.
37. United States Census Bureau. (2005). Historical poverty tables. Washington, DC: U. S. Department of Commerce. Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/histpov/hstpov7.html.
38. United States Census Bureau. (2004). Current population reports: Characteristics of the population below the poverty line. Washington, DC: U. S. Department of Commerce.
39. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). (2007). The annual homeless assessment report to congress. Washington DC: Department of Housing and Urban Development.
40. Wardhaugh, J. (1999). The unaccommodated woman: Home, homelessness and identity. The Sociological Review, 47, 91-109.
41. Williams, J. C. (2003). "A roof over my head": Homeless women and the shelter industry. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado.
42. Wuthnow, R., Hackett, C., & Hsu, B. Y. (2004). The effectiveness and trustworthiness of faith-based and other service organizations: A study of recipients' perceptions. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 43 (1), 1-17.