The Women Outside: Meanings and Myths of Homelessness

Drawing upon four years' experience as a volunteer in a shelter, Stephanie Golden offers a stark and startling new portrait of homeless women. Taking us inside shelters, out on the streets, and into the lives of homeless women, The Women Outside uses wide-ranging scholarship to integrate a number of perspectives--historical, sociological, psychological, literary, and mythic--in a wholly original, incisive investigation.