Women Adrift, Sporting Girls and the Unfortunate Poor: A Gendered History of Homelessness in Portland 1900-1929

Women Adrift, Sporting Girls and the Unfortunate Poor: A Gendered History of Homelessness in Portland 1900-1929

This purpose of this study is to incorporate women into the history of homelessness. Women's experience is missing from the narrative of industrial era homelessness, which causes researchers to make a distinction between the modem day homeless population and its predecessors. This distinction p...

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Main Author: Serbulo, Leanne Claire
Format: Others
Published: PDXScholar 2003
Subjects:
Homeless women > Oregon > Portland > Social conditions > 20th century
Single women > Oregon > Portland > Social conditions > 20th century
Prostitutes > Oregon > Portland > Social conditions > 20th century
Low-income single mothers > Oregon > Portland > Social conditions > 20th century
Homeless women > History > 20th century
Online Access:https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/741
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1740&context=open_access_etds

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https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/741
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1740&context=open_access_etds

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