Women and Housing (eBook, ePUB)

An International Analysis
Redaktion: Kennett, Patricia; Chan, Kam Wah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection explores the housing circumstances of women in developed and emerging societies in Europe, USA and East Asia, at a time of substantial economic and social change. Its focus is on the interface between housing and gender and how this socially constructed relationship manifests and transforms over time and space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136739620
• Artikelnr.: 42976377

Autorenporträt

Patricia Kennett is a Reader in Comparative Policy Studies and Head of the Centre for Urban Studies in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK. She has undertaken substantial research and published widely on issues relating to housing and home ownership, homelessness and social exclusion, citizenship and the welfare state in comparative perspective. Chan Kam Wah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He mainly teaches social policy and housing policy. His major research interests are gender studies, housing studies, and social welfare and social policy analysis. Recent publications include: 'Deconstructing the Asian Welfare Model: social equality matters' in Journal of Asian Public Policy 1(3) 2008, The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia (Lexington, 2007, co-ed), Gender and Social Work - Theory and Practice (Chinese University Press, 2006, in Chinese, co-ed).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Gender and Housing in an International Context 2. Women's
Housing Rights: What is the Matter with the International Norm? 3. Women
and Housing: The Australian Experience 4. Women and Housing Affordability
in the United States 5. Social Change and Housing Systems: The Case of
Women in Spain 6. Women's Housing in Sweden 7.Women, Housing and
Citizenship in Great Britain 8. Moving Beyond the Standard Family Model:
The Emerging Housing Situation of Women in Japan 9. Neoliberalization and
the Invisibility of Women's Housing Problems in Taiwan 10. A Gender Study
of the Housing Rights of Women in Urban China - a Case Study of a Single
Parent Female Domestic Workers' Group 11. Women and Housing in Hong Kong
12. Conclusion