No Room of Her Own

Mama Pam * Annamarie Tailfeathers * Elizabeth Thatcher * Sweet Pea * Debra Martinson * Anitra Freeman * Roxane Roberts * Loann Winston * Mona Caudill Joyner * Jessie Pedro * Marie * Janice Connelly * Flower * Arnette Adams * Marlowe

Desiree Hellegers

"Some of my deepest conversations have been with wise homeless sisters of all colors on the underside of America - yet they have a rich understanding of America! Don't miss this book!" - Cornel West, Princeton University"No Room of her Own will take its place next to Liebow's Tell Them Who I Am as a definitive contemporary human document on the lives of homeless women." - Mitchell Duneier, Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, Princeton University'Heartbreaking and inspiring stories of courageous women enduring and triumphing over adversity few of us can imagine. Desiree Hellegers brilliantly collates and connects the stories of disparate homeless women. We learn much about these citizens with no addresses. They have been studied to death but rarely do we hear their voices. No Room of Their Own breaks the silences surrounding the national disgrace of homelessness. These women must be heard.' - David Barsamian'The reality that sings out from Desiree Hellegers' remarkable book is that women who lack a roof to sleep under at night are not lacking in competence, will-power, a way with words and a generous spirit of activism. The first-hand stories gathered here, framed by Hellegers' cogently political introduction, show how in the USA's grossly class-divided, racist and sexist society housing is not a right but a privilege. Homelessness is a punishment for being already disadvantaged. No Room of Her Own will be an inspiration to activist women, both homeless and housed.' - Cynthia Cockburn, feminist researcher and writer, member of Women in Black London, author of From Where We Stand: War, Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis'After reading No Room of Her Own, I'm more convinced than ever that unless we bend toward justice, years hence, our children will look back upon current policies that are producing poverty and homelessness alongside peopleless homes - as a societal experiment that is far worse than the Tuskeegee study, in which the ravages of syphilis were