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Heads above Water tells the stories of women and their families who survived the Grand Forks, North Dakota, flood of 1997, one of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. This book describes the challenges women faced and explores the importance of class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability in their disaster recovery. The women found themselves face-to-face with social and familial upheaval, emotional and physical trauma, precarious economic and social status, and feelings of loss and violat

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• Full title: Heads Above Water
• Subtitle: Gender, Class, and Family in the Grand Forks Flood
• Author: Alice Fothergill
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780791461570
• ID: 04702119
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 503 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 164 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. June 2004

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