The Center for Women and Work and
The Institute for Women's Leadership
present:
Doubly Displaced:
Women and Public Housing after Katrina
A Talk by Dr. Jane M. Henrici
Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington DC
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
162 Ryders Lane
First Floor Conference Room
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
What happened to the women in New Orleans public housing after Katrina hit?
Using a framework that both acknowledges the gendered, racialized, and
classed character of disasters, and understands that post-disaster life is
affected by pre-disaster circumstances, Dr. Henrici explores the most
vulnerable of Katrina's victims-women in public housing.
Learn about these women's struggles after being displaced, first by the
flooding in 2005 and then by the closure for demolition of much of New
Orleans public housing in 2006. Find out what these women have to say about
their sense of home, work, children, and community, and how they are doing
now; along with recommendations and strategies for our shared future.
Dr. Jane Henrici is an anthropologist who studies gender, race, and
ethnicity and their relationship to policy and development. Dr. Henrici
currently directs a study for the Institute for Women's Policy Research on
New Orleans women public housing residents and their post-Katrina
circumstances. Jane Henrici also teaches in the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at George Mason University.
Please RSVP by November 4, 2008 to Carla LoMeo at clomeo(a)smlr.rutgers.edu
or call 732.932.4614. Seating is limited. There will be a reception
starting at 4:00pm, and lecture beginning at 4:30pm.
Heather A. McKay
Director
Sloan Center on Innovative Training and Workforce Development
Center for Women and Work
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
50 Labor Center Way
New Brunswick
New Jersey
08901
tel: 732-932-0052
fax: 732-932-1254
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Eugene McElroy
Rutgers University
School of Management and Labor Relations Library
50 Labor Center Way
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901
732-932-9513
tel: 732-932-9513
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