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Author: Vanessa Oliver
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.440kg
ISBN: 9781442613447
ISBN 10: 1442613440
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 12 February 2013
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Healing Home is a book of high quality on all dimensions - theoretical, methodological, substantive, and technical. Vanessa Oliver's focus on 'homeless' young women in Canada, as well as her provision of space for them to tell their stories, is unique: despite the ever-proliferating literatures on homelessness, even feminist researchers have paid very little attention to youth who are inadequately housed or note housed at all, and considerably less attention has been devoted to female than to male youth in that situation. Oliver is to be commended for conducting this much-needed, groundbreaking exploratory study that will provide a solid foundation for future research on 'homeless' young women. She makes a compelling case for the urgent need for decision-makers at all levels to elicit the perceptions, experiences, and recommendations of those who will be targeted by their legislation and policies. - Dorothy Chunn, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
""Healing Home is a book of high quality on all dimensions - theoretical, methodological, substantive, and technical. Vanessa Oliver's focus on 'homeless' young women in Canada, as well as her provision of space for them to tell their stories, is unique: despite the ever-proliferating literatures on homelessness, even feminist researchers have paid very little attention to youth who are inadequately housed or note housed at all, and considerably less attention has been devoted to female than to male youth in that situation. Oliver is to be commended for conducting this much-needed, groundbreaking exploratory study that will provide a solid foundation for future research on 'homeless' young women. She makes a compelling case for the urgent need for decision-makers at all levels to elicit the perceptions, experiences, and recommendations of those who will be targeted by their legislation and policies.""--Dorothy Chunn, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
"""Healing Home is a book of high quality on all dimensions - theoretical, methodological, substantive, and technical. Vanessa Oliver's focus on 'homeless' young women in Canada, as well as her provision of space for them to tell their stories, is unique: despite the ever-proliferating literatures on homelessness, even feminist researchers have paid very little attention to youth who are inadequately housed or note housed at all, and considerably less attention has been devoted to female than to male youth in that situation. Oliver is to be commended for conducting this much-needed, groundbreaking exploratory study that will provide a solid foundation for future research on 'homeless' young women. She makes a compelling case for the urgent need for decision-makers at all levels to elicit the perceptions, experiences, and recommendations of those who will be targeted by their legislation and policies.""--Dorothy Chunn, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University"
Author Information
Vanessa Oliver is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Mount Allison University.
