America's Shame: Women and Children in Shelter and the Degradation of Family Roles

by Barbara A. Arrighi

Rejecting those who urge a bootstrap approach to people living in extreme poverty on the edge of society, sociologist Barbara Arrighi makes an eloquent, compassionate plea for empathy and collective responsibility toward those for whom either the boots or the straps are missing. This book further offers solutions in consciousness raising, community collaboration, and informed, responsible public policy. The book is a critique of a system that purports...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275957322
• ISBN13: 9780275957322
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"