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Book Reviews : Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women. By Eliot Liebow. New York: Free Press, 1993, 339 pp., $24.95 (paper

Book Reviews : Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women. By Eliot Liebow. New York: Free... Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives Women. Eliot Liebow. of Homeless By New York: Free Press, 1993, 339 $24.95 pp., (paper). Tell Them Who I Am is a rare blend of qualitative scholarship combined with involved human interaction. After deeply it, reading I wondered where Eliot who solidified his career in 1967 with Liebow, the of the now-classic Corner: A publication Tally’s Study of Negro Streetcorner Men had been all these (Boston: Little, Brown,1967), years. A Liebow enters the of world homeless women later, quarter century as a the book is written from a human- participant-observer. Although istic and social-class it could as well have been perspective, just written a feminist Liebow’s strict attention to ethics using perspective. him faithful to his matter. He does an excellent of makes subject job himself at the same his He and, time, involving keeping perspective. in the true sense of the word. As a the is a result, participant-observer he to homeless women is their and readers voice own, gives decidedly have to look hard to find evidence of feminist themes. will not of runs One feminist that theme, unequal power relationships, of the of women from the book. When through http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Reviews : Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women. By Eliot Liebow. New York: Free Press, 1993, 339 pp., $24.95 (paper

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Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives Women. Eliot Liebow. of Homeless By New York: Free Press, 1993, 339 $24.95 pp., (paper). Tell Them Who I Am is a rare blend of qualitative scholarship combined with involved human interaction. After deeply it, reading I wondered where Eliot who solidified his career in 1967 with Liebow, the of the now-classic Corner: A publication Tally’s Study of Negro Streetcorner Men had been all these (Boston: Little, Brown,1967), years. A Liebow enters the of world homeless women later, quarter century as a the book is written from a human- participant-observer. Although istic and social-class it could as well have been perspective, just written a feminist Liebow’s strict attention to ethics using perspective. him faithful to his matter. He does an excellent of makes subject job himself at the same his He and, time, involving keeping perspective. in the true sense of the word. As a the is a result, participant-observer he to homeless women is their and readers voice own, gives decidedly have to look hard to find evidence of feminist themes. will not of runs One feminist that theme, unequal power relationships, of the of women from the book. When through

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Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work – SAGE

Published: Jul 1, 1994

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