Women's shelters

Here are entered works on shelters for women who are victims of abuse, homelessness, disasters, or other crises.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003395
- info:lc/authorities/sh87003395
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh87003395#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Battered women's shelters
- Crisis housing, Women's
- Emergency housing for women
- Refuges, Women's
- Shelters, Women's
- Women's crisis housing
- Women's emergency housing
- Women's refuges
Use For
- Women's crisis housing
- Abused women's shelters
Broader Terms
- Emergency housing
- Women--Services for
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb12346055h
Sources
- found: Work cat.: DellaCorte, B. Shelter from the storm, 1985.
- found: Hennepin.
- found: Web. 3 (Shelter, not Women's)
- found: NYT index (Coalition for Abused Women--700 shelter programs nationwide)
- found: Timms Dict. soc. welfare (refuges for battered women)
- found: Rafferty, A. Wearing smooth the path, 2001.
- notfound: LIV;Encyc. soc. sci.;Encyc. soc. work
LC Classification
- HV1443.5
General Notes
- Here are entered works on shelters for women who are victims of abuse, homelessness, disasters, or other crises.
Change Notes
- 1987-05-27: new
- 2002-04-22: revised

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