The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster
272The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780826517999 |
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Publisher: | Vanderbilt University Press |
Publication date: | 02/24/2012 |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 272 |
Product dimensions: | 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Emmanuel David is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Villanova University.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword William A. Anderson
Preface Emmanuel David and Elaine Enarson
In Protest
Chapter 1 INCITE! Statement on Hurricane Katrina INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Chapter 2 Noticing Gender (or Not) in Disaster Joni Seager
Chapter 3 Women and Girls Last? Averting the Second Post-Katrina Disaster Elaine Enarson
Chapter 4 A Feminist Perspective on Katrina Loretta J. Ross
Women on the Front Lines: Testimonials
Chapter 5 Surviving Hurricane Katrina Mary Gehman
Chapter 6 We Cannot Forget Them Annette Marquis
Chapter 7 "Help! A Little Girl Cries" Denny Taylor
Chapter 8 Unexpected Necessities: Inside Charity Hospital Ruth Berggren
Chapter 9 "We Like to Think Houma Women Are Very Strong" Brenda Dardar Robichaux, Ms. Foundation for Women profile
Chapter 10 Coastal Women for Change: Biloxi, Mississippi Sharon Hanshaw, Ms. Foundation for Women profile
Chapter 11 "Estaba Reclamando Mi Sudor" ("I was demanding what I had earned with my sweat") "Antonia"
In Deep Water: Displacement, Loss, and Care
Chapter 12 Setting the Stage for Disaster: Women in New Orleans Before and After Katrina Beth Willinger and Janna Knight
Chapter 13 Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Women's Abilities and Disabilities in Crisis Elizabeth Davis and Kelly Rouba
Chapter 14 Factors Influencing Evacuation Decisions among High-Risk Pregnant and Postpartum Women Marianne Zotti, Van T. Tong, Lyn Kieltyka, and Renee Brown-Bryant
Chapter 15 Mothering After a Disaster: The Experiences of Black Single Mothers Displaced by Hurricane Katrina Megan Reid
Chapter 16 State Policy and Disaster Assistance: Listening to Women Susan Sterett
Chapter 17 The Katrina Difference: African American Women's Networks and Post-Katrina Poverty in New Orleans Jacquelyn Litt, Althea Skinner, and Kelley Robinson
Chapter 18 Doubly Displaced: Women, Public Housing, and Spatial Access after Katrina Jane M. Henrici, Allison Suppan Helmuth, and Angela Carlberg
Against the Tide: Resisting, Reclaiming, and Reimagining
Chapter 19 Gender, Race, and Place Attachment: A Case of Historic Neighborhood Recovery in Coastal Mississippi Mia White
Chapter 20 Before and After Katrina: Gender and the Landscape of Community Work Pamela Jenkins
Chapter 21 Battered Women's Shelters in New Orleans: Recovery and Transformation Bethany L. Brown
Chapter 22 Listening for Gender in Katrina's Jewish Voices Judith Rosenbaum
Chapter 23 Building Coalitions and Rebuilding Versailles: Vietnamese American Women's Environmental Work After Hurricane Katrina Gennie Thi Nguyen
Chapter 24 Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Gendered Collective Action: The Case of Women of the Storm Following Hurricane Katrina Emmanuel David
Chapter 25 Grounded in Faith, Inspired to Action: Bayou Women Own Their Own Recovery Kristina Peterson and Richard Krajeski
Gender in Disaster Theory, Practice, and Research
Chapter 26 Gendered Disaster Practice and Policy Brenda Phillips
Chapter 27 Critical Disjunctures: Disaster Research, Social Inequality, Gender, and Hurricane Katrina Kathleen Tierney