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Founded in 1965, the University Press of Colorado is a nonprofit cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State University, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University, and Western Colorado University.

In 2012, University Press of Colorado merged with Utah State University Press, which was established in 1972. USU Press titles are managed as an active imprint of University Press of Colorado, and they maintain offices in both Louisville, Colorado, and Logan, Utah.

The University Press of Colorado, including the Utah State University Press imprint, publishes forty to forty-five new titles each year, with the goal of facilitating communication among scholars and providing the peoples of the state and region with a fair assessment of their histories, cultures, and resources.

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A Roof Over My Head, Second Edition

Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry

By Jean Calterone Williams

University Press of Colorado

Based upon extensive ethnographic data, A Roof Over My Head examines the lives of homeless women who often care for children and live in small shelters and transitional living centers. Previous literature on homelessness has focused on those living literally on the streets or in large armory-style shelters. As William maintains, such studies often overlook those homeless women—many with children—who live in small shelters and transitional living centers.

The author draws upon interviews with homeless women, interviews with housed people, and, finally, evaluations of shelter services, philosophies, and policies to get at the causes and social construction of homelessness. A Roof Over My Head is a ground-breaking study that unveils the centrality of abuse and poverty in homeless women's lives and outlines ways in which societal responses can and should be more effective.

Homeless Women and the Shelter Industry

Case Studies in Science, Technology, Engineering, Government, and Community Organizations

Appropriation and the Evolution of Colorado's Landscape, Ditches, and Water Institutions

On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food

Science, Policy, and Practice

The Enchanted Gem Carvings of Vasily Konovalenko

A Collection of Stories from the Modern Maya of Southern Mexico

Religion, Science, and America's Obsession with the End of the World

Biographical Essays

Historical Ecology, Demography, and Movement in the American Southwest

From the White City Beautiful to a Century of Fun

Conceptualizing What Households Do

Artist of Colorado

Accounts Chronicling the Fall of the Inca Empire

Painting Colorado History, 1901–1962

Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration

Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia

The Cranes of North America and the World

Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West

The Hoshida Family Story

Empirical Approaches to Mesoamerican Archaeology

Integration, Interaction, Dissolution

Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World

The Politics of Production and the Strategies of Everyday Life