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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820592403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2011

ISBN

1-136-73962-9

1-136-73963-7

1-283-04007-7

9786613040077

0-203-81893-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Housing and society series

Altri autori (Persone)

KennettPatricia <1959->

ChanKam Wah

Disciplina

363.5/92

Soggetti

Housing policy

Housing - Sex differences

Sex discrimination against women

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Women and housing systems; 2 Women's housing rights: Is anything wrong 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 situations of women in Japan

9 Neo-liberalization and the invisibility of women's housing problems in Taiwan10 A gender study on housing rights of women in urban China: Case study of a single-parent female domestic workers' group; 11 Women and housing inequalities in Hong Kong; 12 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from



developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities of women. The collection seeks to contribute to comparative housing debates by highlighting the gendered nature of housing processes, locating these processes within wider structured and institutionalized relations of power, and to show how these socially constructed relationships are cultur