Title Healing home : health and homelessness in the life stories of young women / Vanessa Oliver

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (pages) Contents 1 The Story behind the Story: An Introduction -- 2 Once upon a Time: "Storying" Feminist Theory in Neoliberal Times -- 3 Girl, You'll Be a Woman ... Soon: A Narrative Project -- 4 Girls Aloud: Narratives and Self-Stories -- 5 Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Age, Space, Place, Gender, and Health -- 6 Seen and Not Heard: Negotiating Health and Wellness -- 7 Begging for Change: Barriers, Facilitators, and Implications for Policy and Practice -- 8 Living in a Material World: Challenges and Change -- 9 A Journey of a Thousand Miles: One Conclusion -- Youth Resources List Summary Applying a strong, articulate, and systemic analysis to on-the-ground narratives, Oliver is able to offer fresh, incisive recommendations for health and social service providers with the potential to effect real-world change for this marginalized population Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes In English Print version record Subject Homelessness -- Health aspects -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies Homeless women -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies Homeless women -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Biography Women -- Health and hygiene -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies Health services accessibility -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies Health services accessibility. Social history. Homeless women -- Health and hygiene -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies Health Services Accessibility Ill-Housed Persons -- psychology Healthcare Disparities Social Conditions Women -- psychology social history. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. Social history Homeless women -- Health and hygiene Health services accessibility Homeless women Homelessness -- Health aspects Social conditions Women -- Health and hygiene Accessibilité des services de santé -- Canada. Sans-abri -- Aspect sanitaire -- Canada. SUBJECT Toronto (Ont.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Case studies Ontario Subject Ontario -- Toronto Genre/Form Biographies Case studies Case studies. Études de cas. Form Electronic book ISBN 1442662352 9781442662353 9781442662360 1442662360

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