Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index.
Contents
Forming homelessness -- The fin-de-siècle city -- Anti-semitic roots of homelessness -- Consolidating homelessness -- Discourse and subjectivation in American homelessness -- The limits of hobosociality for social mooring -- Homelessness as disaffiliation -- Fragmenting homelessness -- Fracturing consensus : women and minorities -- The homeless family and the return of myth -- Transforming homelessness -- The homeless and the disneyfication of the city -- A decoupled homelessness : changing signification.