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

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.5/92
• Soggetto topico: Housing policy; Housing - Sex differences; Sex discrimination against women
• Altri autori: ChanKam Wah KennettPatricia <1959->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Women and housing
• ISBN: 1-136-73962-9; 1-136-73963-7; 1-283-04007-7; 9786613040077; 0-203-81893-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791888403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Housing and Society Series