Author Bio

Emmanuel David is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Villanova University.

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Elaine Enarson is an independent scholar based in Colorado.

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Main Description

The transformative event known as "Katrina" exposed long-standing social inequalities. While debates rage about race and class relations in New Orleans and the Katrina diaspora, gender remains curiously absent from public discourse and scholarly analysis. This volume draws on original research and firsthand narratives from women in diverse economic, political, ethnic, and geographic contexts to portray pre-Katrina vulnerabilities, gender concerns in post-disaster housing and assistance, and women's collective struggles to recover from this catastrophe.

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Reviews

"A remarkable and important collection of reports, essays, and analyses on an understudied and overlooked issue. David and Enarson have brought together pieces that are informative, eye-opening, rich, and diverse. This compelling anthology is a must read. I will keep The Women of Katrina at the front of my bookshelf."
--Alice Fothergill, author of Heads Above Water: Gender, Class, and Family in the Grand Forks Flood

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"The power and diversity of the urban and rural women's experiences in the Katrina/Rita catastrophe begged for this book to be done. These scholars and activists who write here have committed their lives and careers to creating a lens to view the remarkable strengths that women have shown in normal times as well as crises. They have used that lens very well in The Women of Katrina."
--Shirley Laska, Professor Emerita of Sociology and Founding Director Emerita, Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology, University of New Orleans

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"The meat has been put on the bones! Never before has a text been assembled that better illustrates how and why disaster consequences are as much, perhaps more, the result of differences between the people affected as they are the forces of nature. This book will forever alter how disasters are viewed."
--Dennis S. Mileti, Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado at Boulder

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At a Glance

A powerful blend of firsthand accounts and original research

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Table of Contents

Contents



Foreword William A. Anderson


Preface Emmanuel David and Elaine Enarson




In Protest


Chapter 1 INCITE! Statement on Hurricane Katrina INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence


Chapter 2 Noticing Gender (or Not) in Disaster Joni Seager


Chapter 3 Women and Girls Last? Averting the Second Post-Katrina Disaster Elaine Enarson


Chapter 4 A Feminist Perspective on Katrina Loretta J. Ross





Women on the Front Lines: Testimonials


Chapter 5 Surviving Hurricane Katrina Mary Gehman


Chapter 6 We Cannot Forget Them Annette Marquis


Chapter 7 "Help! A Little Girl Cries" Denny Taylor


Chapter 8 Unexpected Necessities: Inside Charity Hospital Ruth Berggren


Chapter 9 "We Like to Think Houma Women Are Very Strong" Brenda Dardar Robichaux, Ms. Foundation for Women profile


Chapter 10 Coastal Women for Change: Biloxi, Mississippi Sharon Hanshaw, Ms. Foundation for Women profile


Chapter 11 "Estaba Reclamando Mi Sudor" ("I was demanding what I had earned with my sweat") "Antonia"





In Deep Water: Displacement, Loss, and Care


Chapter 12 Setting the Stage for Disaster: Women in New Orleans Before and After Katrina Beth Willinger and Janna Knight


Chapter 13 Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Women's Abilities and Disabilities in Crisis Elizabeth Davis and Kelly Rouba


Chapter 14 Factors Influencing Evacuation Decisions among High-Risk Pregnant and Postpartum Women Marianne Zotti, Van T. Tong, Lyn Kieltyka, and Renee Brown-Bryant


Chapter 15 Mothering After a Disaster: The Experiences of Black Single Mothers Displaced by Hurricane Katrina Megan Reid


Chapter 16 State Policy and Disaster Assistance: Listening to Women Susan Sterett


Chapter 17 The Katrina Difference: African American Women's Networks and Post-Katrina Poverty in New Orleans Jacquelyn Litt, Althea Skinner, and Kelley Robinson


Chapter 18 Doubly Displaced: Women, Public Housing, and Spatial Access after Katrina Jane M. Henrici, Allison Suppan Helmuth, and Angela Carlberg





Against the Tide: Resisting, Reclaiming, and Reimagining


Chapter 19 Gender, Race, and Place Attachment: A Case of Historic Neighborhood Recovery in Coastal Mississippi Mia White


Chapter 20 Before and After Katrina: Gender and the Landscape of Community Work Pamela Jenkins


Chapter 21 Battered Women's Shelters in New Orleans: Recovery and Transformation Bethany L. Brown


Chapter 22 Listening for Gender in Katrina's Jewish Voices Judith Rosenbaum


Chapter 23 Building Coalitions and Rebuilding Versailles: Vietnamese American Women's Environmental Work After Hurricane Katrina Gennie Thi Nguyen


Chapter 24 Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Gendered Collective Action: The Case of Women of the Storm Following Hurricane Katrina Emmanuel David


Chapter 25 Grounded in Faith, Inspired to Action: Bayou Women Own Their Own Recovery Kristina Peterson and Richard Krajeski





Gender in Disaster Theory, Practice, and Research


Chapter 26 Gendered Disaster Practice and Policy Brenda Phillips


Chapter 27 Critical Disjunctures: Disaster Research, Social Inequality, Gender, and Hurricane Katrina Kathleen Tierney

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