Bibliography of Classical Mythology
This essay first appeared in the September 2023 issue of Choice (volume 61 | issue 1).
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In recent decades, homelessness has become a subject of growing concern throughout the world, including in the United States and other highly industrialized countries. Scholarly literature on homelessness has burgeoned along with the homeless population, as scholars in disciplines across the social and health sciences—public health, social work, anthropology, sociology, urban affairs, psychology—have struggled to understand this troubling problem from myriad viewpoints, and develop strategies to deal with it. This literature includes histories of homelessness; ethnographies; critical works on the causes and possible remedies for homelessness; and memoirs. This essay identifies some of the best of those resources. …
Irene Glasser is an anthropologist whose teaching and research focuses on homelessness and addictions and recovery. She is an adjunct lecturer in the anthropology department at Brown University and a research associate of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies at Brown. Eric Hirsch, a professor sociology at Providence College, teaches in the areas of urban sociology, race and ethnic relations, homelessness, social movements, and the sociology of disaster. He is active in the advocacy movement to end homelessness in the state of Rhode Island.
This essay first appeared in the September 2023 issue of Choice (volume 61 | issue 1).
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This essay first appeared in the August 2023 issue of Choice (volume 60 | issue 12).
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This essay first appeared in the July 2023 issue of Choice (volume 60 | issue 11).
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This essay first appeared in the June 2023 issue of Choice (volume 60 | issue 10).
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