Bibliographic record
Abstract
Impoverished Women and the Struggleto Overcome Violence "My future looks good at this present time in my life."A surprising statement, perhaps, coming from a 36-year-old homeless woman, but this quote is typical of the majority of women to whom the reader will be introduced in this book.Becoming Strong: Impoverished Women and the Struggle to Overcome Violence offers a radical departure from the orthodox view of homeless women as weak, lacking in agency, and/or pathological.Drawing on research conducted with homeless women in three U.S. cities (Los Angeles, Chicago, and Detroit), authors Laura Huey and Ryan Broll present an alternative view that is rooted primarily in the thoughts, beliefs, and experiences of homeless women themselves.Through analysis of nearly 200 semi-structured interviews with homeless women, it is revealed that there is no singular response to the various types of trauma these women have experienced -from violent victimization to sudden deaths of loved ones to the process of becoming homeless itself.Instead, the women interviewed exhibited a broad range of responses, which included both symptoms of trauma and signs of resiliency.And, rather than being passive victims of circumstance, most of the women see themselves as strong individuals, oriented towards the future and determined to build something better for their lives.Being Strong not only examines trauma and the role it can play in shaping homeless women's lives, but also explores how women can and do grow from traumatic experiences.It also looks at those situations where women remain trapped in negative patterns and offers solutions for responding to issues that perpetuate the cycle of female homelessness.In presenting its findings, this book draws upon current research and theories from diverse fields within sociology, criminology, and psychology, offering readers a complex view of a set of complex issues.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.598 | 0.344 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".