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The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster Paperback – February 24, 2012

by Emmanuel David (Editor), Elaine Enarson (Editor)

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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.

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"This book aims to educate people about the challenges facing women in a disaster and the strengths which women can contribute to survive disaster and facilitate recovery. It also points out the ways the government failed to provide adequate assistance to women, and in particular women with children, women of color and women with disabilities, after Katrina. In doing so, the editors of this book hope individuals, communities and governments will be better prepared to protect women the next time around." - New Orleans Living Magazine

"The book's strength lies with the voices it allows to be heard, voices often silent or silenced post-disaster. Many of the authors are not academics but instead are some of those women impacted most [...] and many of the academics who have contributed write as women caught up in the events, reflecting on them from their personal and professional viewpoints. [...] Overall then, an excellent addition to any and all bookshelves - a highly recommend read!" - Gender & Development

"The book has the most amazing collection of "eyewitness" accounts. It illustrates a need to understand underlying issues - those that will still be there long after the aid agencies have moved on - and highlights the dangers of making quick-fire assumptions that all too often turn out to be quite wrong. Anyone who thinks they know how to plan for a disaster should read this - at least once a year!" - Association for Human Resources Management in International Organizations

"For those who experienced Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath only on screen and in print, Women of Katrina amplifies the field on which the recovery played out." - Women's Review of Books

"[A]t the same time David and Enarson urge us to understand women as particularly vulnerable to disaster; they ask us not to see women as in need of protection but as agents whose decisions are enabled and constrained by structural inequalities related to race, class, and gender. And by bringing to light the voices of women [...] we will better understand the complexity and diversity of women's experiences with disaster." - Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vanderbilt University Press (February 24, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0826517994
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0826517999
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.39 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.72 x 0.76 x 10.13 inches

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