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Women´s Homelessness in Europe
Paula Mayock (Ed.)
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Description for Women´s Homelessness in Europe
Hardback. Editor(s): Mayock, Paula; Bretherton, Joanne. Num Pages: 298 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; GTF; JFFB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women's homelessness. Drawing together work from Europe's leading homelessness scholars, it presents a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of this acute social problem, including its relationship with domestic violence, lone parenthood, motherhood, health and well-being and women's experience of sustained and recurrent homelessness. Working from diverse perspectives, the authors look at the responses to women's homelessness in differing cultures and regions, and within various forms of welfare states. They focus in particular on relating the gender dimensions of welfare and social policy ... Read more
This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women's homelessness. Drawing together work from Europe's leading homelessness scholars, it presents a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of this acute social problem, including its relationship with domestic violence, lone parenthood, motherhood, health and well-being and women's experience of sustained and recurrent homelessness. Working from diverse perspectives, the authors look at the responses to women's homelessness in differing cultures and regions, and within various forms of welfare states. They focus in particular on relating the gender dimensions of welfare and social policy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
542g
Number of Pages
298
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137545152
SKU
V9781137545152
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Ref
99-15
About Paula Mayock (Ed.)
Paula Mayock is Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Joanne Bretherton is Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, UK.
Reviews for Women´s Homelessness in Europe
The volume successfully highlights the way in which gender expectations intersect with power structures to inform women's vulnerability to and experience of homelessness, producing a convincing and coherent argument as to the gendered nature of homelessness and the urgent need for academics and policy makers to understand it as such. As such, it would be of great value to scholars ... Read more