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OverviewHomeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the impacts of immigration and urbanization on the middle class family. It demonstrates how contemporary social work and policy emerge from Victorian cultural attitudes. Full Product DetailsAuthor: P. WebbPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.490kg ISBN: 9781137374226ISBN 10: 1137374225 Pages: 278 Publication Date: 07 August 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPART I: FORMING HOMELESSNESS 1. The Fin-de-Siècle City 2. Anti-Semitic Roots of Homelessness PART II: CONSOLIDATING HOMELESSNESS 3. Discourse and Subjectivation in American Homelessness 4. The Limits of Hobosociality for Social Mooring 5. Homelessness as Disaffiliation PART III: FRAGMENTING HOMELESSNESS 6. Fracturing Consensus: Women and Minorities 7. The Homeless Family and the Return of Myth PART IV: TRANSFORMING HOMELESSNESS 8. The Homeless and the Disneyfication of the City 9. A Decoupled Homelessness: Changing SignificationReviewsPhilip Webb's work on homelessness is innovative and original, bringing attention to a subject that was once popular (from roughly the late 1980s-the late 1990s) and has now faded into obscurity in important respects. Webb seeks not merely to update the older literature but to critically analyze it in terms of its narrow definitions and foci. - Kathleen Arnold, Professor of Political science, DePaul University, USA Author InformationPhilip Webb is Executive Director of Making it Possible to End Homelessness, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |