Vanessa Oliver

Healing Home

Health and Homelessness in the Life Stories of Young Women

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on research that was awarded the Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal, Healing Home is an exploration of the lives and health of young women experiencing homelessness. Vanessa Oliver employs an innovative methodology that blends sociology and storytelling practices to investigate these women’s access to health services, their understandings of health and health care delivery, and their health-seeking behaviours. Through their life stories, Oliver demonstrates how personal and social experiences shape health outcomes. In contrast to many previous studies that have focused on the deficits of these young people, Healing Home is both youth-centric and youth-positive in its approach: by foregrounding the narratives of the women themselves, Oliver empowers a sub-section of the population that traditionally has not had a voice in determining policies that shape their realities. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781442645318
• ISBN-10: 1442645318
• Artikelnr.: 37055614

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Oliver is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Mount Allison University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface: A Room of One’s Own
I. “The Story Behind the Story”: An Introduction
II. “Once Upon A Time”: Storying Feminist Theory in Neoliberal Times
III. “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman…Soon”: A Narrative Project
IV. “Girls Aloud”: Narratives and Self-Stories: Savannah; Danika; Erin;
Jean; Radha; Faith & Raven; Arielle
V. “Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice”: Age, Space, Gender and Health
VI. “Seen and Not Heard”: Negotiating Health and Wellness
VII. “Begging for Change”: Barriers, Facilitators and Implications
VIII. “Living in a Material World”: Challenges and Change
IX: “A Journey of a Thousand Miles”: One Conclusion
Youth Resources List
References