Heads above water : gender, class, and family in the Grand Forks flood / / Alice Fothergill
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| Autore: |
Fothergill Alice
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| Titolo: |
Heads above water : gender, class, and family in the Grand Forks flood / / Alice Fothergill
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (283 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 978.4/16 |
| Soggetto topico: | Floods - Social aspects - North Dakota - Grand Forks |
| Floods - Red River Valley (Minn. and N.D.-Man.) | |
| Women disaster victims - North Dakota - Grand Forks | |
| Women - North Dakota - Grand Forks - Social conditions | |
| Sex role - North Dakota - Grand Forks | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Red River Rising -- Disaster Strikes -- Women’s Roles -- Financial Fallout -- The Stigma of Charity -- Threats to Mind and Body -- Family and Religion: Havens in a Flooded World? -- Domestic Violence -- The Re-Creation of Domestic Culture -- Everything in Her Path -- Notes on Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Heads above Water tells the stories of women and their families who survived the Grand Forks, North Dakota, flood of 1997, one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. This book describes the challenges women faced and explores the importance of class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability in their disaster recovery. The women found themselves face-to-face with social and familial upheaval, emotional and physical trauma, precarious economic and social status, and feelings of loss and violation. By exploring the experiences of these women, author Alice Fothergill contributes to broader sociological discussions about women's changing roles, the stigma of needing and receiving assistance, family relationships under stress, domestic violence, downward mobility, and the importance of "home" to one's identity and sense of self. Heads above Water offers poignant insight into women's everyday lives in an extraordinary time. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Heads above water |
| ISBN: | 9780791484722 |
| 0791484726 | |
| 9781423739999 | |
| 142373999X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910971691803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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