Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-264) and index.
"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 disasters 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 faced-to-face with social and familial upheaval, emotional and physical trauma, precarious economic and social status, and feelings of loss and violation."--Jacket.
Heads above water.
0791461580
Floods-- Red River Valley (Minn. and N.D.-Man.)
Floods-- Social aspects-- North Dakota-- Grand Forks.
Sex role-- North Dakota-- Grand Forks.
Women disaster victims-- North Dakota-- Grand Forks.
Women-- North Dakota-- Grand Forks-- Social conditions.
Floods-- Social aspects.
Floods.
HISTORY-- State & Local.
Sex role.
Women disaster victims.
Women-- Social conditions.
North America, Red River Valley (Minnesota and North Dakota and Manitoba)