Bibliograph

Homeless lives in American cities, interrogating myth and locating community, Philip Webb

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Homeless lives in American cities, interrogating myth and locating community, Philip Webb

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Homeless lives in American cities

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

871536555

Responsibility statement

Philip Webb

Sub title

interrogating myth and locating community

Summary

"Homeless Lives in American Cities: Interrogating Myth and Locating Community explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the impact of immigration and urbanization on the middle class family. These anxieties were negotiated by social activists and service providers, as well as those commenting on their work--journalists, sociologists, and finally policy makers"--Publilsher's description

Table Of Contents

Forming homelessness -- The fin-de-siècle city -- Anti-semitic roots of homelessness -- Consolidating homelessness -- Discourse and subjectivation in American homelessness -- The limits of hobosociality for social mooring -- Homelessness as disaffiliation -- Fragmenting homelessness -- Fracturing consensus : women and minorities -- The homeless family and the return of myth -- Transforming homelessness -- The homeless and the disneyfication of the city -- A decoupled homelessness : changing signification

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