Women of the storm: civic activism after Hurricane Katrina

This work provides a sociohistorical account of the emergence of Women of the Storm in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

After presenting a detailed description of the group's initial formation, the text chronicles its struggles from 2006 to 2012, beginning with the women's efforts to invite lawmakers to see Katrina's destruction firsthand and ending with their campaigns to restore the Gulf Coast after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.