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.