The women of Katrina
Subtitle: how gender, race, and class matter in an American disaster
By: edited by Emmanuel David and Elaine Enarson
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780826517982; 9780826517999
Subjects: Social aspects; Racism; Social stratification; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Sexism; Social conditions; Disasters; Women
Description: The transformative event known as Katrina exposed long-standing social inequalities. While debates rage about race and class relations in New Orleans and the Katrina diaspora, gender remains curiously absent from public discourse and scholarly analysis. This volume draws on original research and firsthand narratives from women in diverse economic, political, ethnic, and geographic contexts to portray pre-Katrina vulnerabilities, gender concerns in post-disaster housing and assistance, and women's collective struggles to recover from this catastrophe. From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.