International critical perspectives on homelessness /

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Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1997.
Description:x, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2746211
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Other authors / contributors:Huth, Mary Jo
Wright, Talmadge.
ISBN:0275956091 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-187) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Tables and Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Social Space, Difference, and Homeless Careers The Homeless in Sao Paulo: Spatial Arrangements
  • Taschner and Elaine Pedreira Rabinovich Homelessness in the Netherlands: Facts and Perspectives
  • America's New Homeless: Single-Parent Families
  • Huth Deconstructing "Undeserving," Resisting Normalcy, and Managing Marginality Reinterpreting the "Undeserving Poor": From Pathology to Resistance
  • Homelessness and Marginality in Australia: Young and Old People Secluded from Independence
  • Control and Exclusions: The Social Regulation of Homelessness Homelessness and Social Exclusion: The Situation of Single Homeless People in Great Britain
  • Discipline and Border Control in Sweden: Strategies for Tenant Control and Housing Exclusion
  • Questioning Assumptions and Possible Solutions to Homelessness The Culture and Reality of Homelessness in the Postmodern City: The Italian Case
  • Charity Begins at Home: A Cross-National View of the Voluntary Sector in Britain, Canada, and the United States
  • Index
  • About the Editors and Contributors