Homeless Lives in American Cities [electronic resource] : Interrogating Myth and Locating Community /
Webb, P.author.
Homeless 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.
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Homeless Lives in American Cities: Interrogating Myth and Locating Community; Contents; Introduction; The Idea of Homelessness; Homelessness as a Cultural Problem; PART I: Formation of Homelessness; CHAPTER 1: The Fin-de-Siècle Homeless City; The Emerging Concept of Homelessness; The Christian Home and the Homeless City; The Rise of the Term Homeless; Combating Homelessness: Bringing the Country to the City; The Homelessness of the Other Half; The Pauper and the Honest Poor: Fostering the Christian Home in the Homeless City; The Flat and the Tenement: The Privacy of a Christian Home
The Christian Home as a Model and Tool of OrderReform and Social Order; CHAPTER 2: Anti-Semitic Roots of Homelessness; Cain; Ishmael; The Wandering Jew; Exile; The Stranger; Radicals and Hobos; Times of Crisis; Protohomelessness as a Mythic Discourse; PART II: Consolidating Homelessness; CHAPTER 3: Discourse and Subjectivation in American Homelessness; The Space of Homelessness; The Language of Homelessness; The Institutions of Homelessness; CHAPTER 4: The Limits of Hobosociality for Social Mooring; CHAPTER 5: Homelessness as Disaffiliation; Loneliness and the Nuclear Family
Sentiment and Interest RelationsThe Nuclear Family; Deviance as Threat to the Family; Testing the Disaffiliation Thesis; PART III: Fragmenting Homelessness; CHAPTER 6: Fracturing Consensus: Women and Minorities; Women Alone: Bag Ladies on the Streets; CHAPTER 7: The Homeless Family and the Return of Myth; Myth and the Politics of Culture; The Family and Cultural Drag; PART IV: Transforming Homelessness; CHAPTER 8: The Homeless and the Disneyfication of the City; CHAPTER 9: A Decoupled Homelessness: Changing Signification; Homeland Security; Housing First; CHAPTER 10: Conclusion; Notes
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Homeless 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.
Social policy.
Sociology, Urban.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Poverty.
Sociology.
Social Policy.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Development Aid.
Sociology, general.