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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 culturally contingent, and manifest and transform over time and space. The international contributors draw on a wide range of empirical evidence relating to labour market participation, wealth distribution, family formation and education to demonstrate the complexity and gendered nature of the interlocking arenas of production, reproduction and consumption and the implications for the housing opportunities of women in different social contexts. Worldwide examples are drawn from Australia, China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the USA.
| ISBN | 0415548977 | | Pages | 264 | | ISBN13 | 9780415548977
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 430 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Routledge | | Series title | Housing and Society Series | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 01 Dec 2010 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | DEWEY | 363.592 | | Spine width (mm) | 10 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Postgraduate |
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| | | List of tables | | | | | | List of figures | | | | | | List of contributors | | | | | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | List of abbreviations | | | | 1 | | Introduction: women and housing systems by Patricia Kennett | | 1 | | 2 | | Women's housing rights: is anything wrong with the international norm? by Ingrid Westendorp | | 11 | | 3 | | Women and housing: the Australian experience by Selina Tually | | 22 | | 4 | | Women and housing affordability in the United States by Elizabeth A. Mulroy | | 52 | | 5 | | Social change and housing systems: the case of women in Spain by Teresa Sanchez-Martinez | | 71 | | 6 | | Women's housing in Sweden by Ingrid Sahlin | | 96 | | 7 | | Women, housing and citizenship in Great Britain by Patricia Kennett | | 116 | | 8 | | Moving beyond the standard family model: the emerging housing situations of women in japan by Mieko Hinokidani | | 133 | | 9 | | Neo-liberalization and the invisibility of women's housing problems in taiwan by Yi-Ling Chen | | 152 | | 10 | | A gender study on housing rights of women in urban China: case study of a single-parent female domestic workers' group by Guo Hui-Min | | 171 | | 11 | | Women and housing inequalities in Hong Kong by Chan Kam Wah | | 187 | | 12 | | Conclusion by Patricia Kennett | | 203 | | | | Notes | | 206 | | | | References | | 215 | | | | Index | | 243 |
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