Women and housing : an international analysis / edited by Patricia Kennett and Chan Kam Wah

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Routledge, 2011.Description: xvi, 247 pISBN:

9780415548977

Subject(s):

Housing policy

DDC classification:

363.592 WOM

Contents:

1. Introduction: women and housing systems / Patricia Kennett -- 2. Women's housing rights: is anything wrong with the international norm? / Ingrid Westendorp -- 3. Women and housing: the Australian experience / Selina Tually -- 4. Women and housing affordability in the United States / Elizabeth A. Mulroy -- 5. Social change and housing systems: the case of women in Spain / Teresa Sanchez-Martinez -- 6. Women's housing in Sweden / Ingrid Sahlin -- 7. Women, housing and citizenship in Great Britain / Patricia Kennett -- 8. Moving beyond the standard family model: the emerging housing situations of women in Japan / Mieko Hinokidani -- 9. Neo-liberalization and the invisibility of women's housing problems in Taiwan / Yi-Ling Chen -- 10. A gender study on housing rights of women in urban China: case study of a single-parent female domestic workers' group / Guo Hui-Min -- 11. Women and housing inequalities in Hong Kong / Chan Kam Wah -- 12. Conclusion / Patricia Kennett.

Summary: This collection seeks to contribute to comparative housing debates by highlighting the gendered nature of housing processes, locating these processes within wider structured and institutionalised relations of power, and to show how these socially constructed relationships are culturally contingent, and manifest and transform over time and space.

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1. Introduction: women and housing systems / Patricia Kennett --
2. Women's housing rights: is anything wrong with the international norm? / Ingrid Westendorp --
3. Women and housing: the Australian experience / Selina Tually --
4. Women and housing affordability in the United States / Elizabeth A. Mulroy --
5. Social change and housing systems: the case of women in Spain / Teresa Sanchez-Martinez --
6. Women's housing in Sweden / Ingrid Sahlin --
7. Women, housing and citizenship in Great Britain / Patricia Kennett --
8. Moving beyond the standard family model: the emerging housing situations of women in Japan / Mieko Hinokidani --
9. Neo-liberalization and the invisibility of women's housing problems in Taiwan / Yi-Ling Chen --
10. A gender study on housing rights of women in urban China: case study of a single-parent female domestic workers' group / Guo Hui-Min --
11. Women and housing inequalities in Hong Kong / Chan Kam Wah --
12. Conclusion / Patricia Kennett.

This collection seeks to contribute to comparative housing debates by highlighting the gendered nature of housing processes, locating these processes within wider structured and institutionalised relations of power, and to show how these socially constructed relationships are culturally contingent, and manifest and transform over time and space.

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