Women and housing : an international analysis
Kennett, Patricia Ed.
Women and housing : an international analysis - London & New York Routledge 2011 - xvi,247,ip.
CONTENTS List of tables vii List of figures ix List of contributors x Acknowledgements xiv List of abbreviations xv 1 Introduction: women and housing systems 1 Chan Kam Wah and Patricia Kennett 2 Women's housing rights: is anything wrong with the international norm? 11 Ingrid Westendorp 3 Women and housing: the Australian experience 22 Selina Tually 4 Women and housing affordability in the United States 52 Elizabeth A. Mulroy 5 Social change and housing systems: the case of women in Spain 71 Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Teresa Sanchez-Martinez 6 Women's housing in Sweden 96 Ingrid Sahlin 7 Women, housing and citizenship in Great Britain 116 Patricia Kennett 8 Moving beyond the standard family model: the emerging housing situations of women in Japan 133 Richard Ronald and Mieko Hinokidani 9 Neo-liberalization and the invisibility of women's housing problems in Taiwan 152 Herng-Dar Bih and Yi-Ling Chen 10A gender study on housing rights of women in urban China: case study of a single-parent female domestic workers' group 171 Guo Hui-min 11Women and housing inequalities in Hong Kong 187 Chan Kam Wah 12Conclusion 203 Patricia Kennett Notes 206 References 215 Index 243
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Women and housing : an international analysis - London & New York Routledge 2011 - xvi,247,ip.
CONTENTS List of tables vii List of figures ix List of contributors x Acknowledgements xiv List of abbreviations xv 1 Introduction: women and housing systems 1 Chan Kam Wah and Patricia Kennett 2 Women's housing rights: is anything wrong with the international norm? 11 Ingrid Westendorp 3 Women and housing: the Australian experience 22 Selina Tually 4 Women and housing affordability in the United States 52 Elizabeth A. Mulroy 5 Social change and housing systems: the case of women in Spain 71 Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Teresa Sanchez-Martinez 6 Women's housing in Sweden 96 Ingrid Sahlin 7 Women, housing and citizenship in Great Britain 116 Patricia Kennett 8 Moving beyond the standard family model: the emerging housing situations of women in Japan 133 Richard Ronald and Mieko Hinokidani 9 Neo-liberalization and the invisibility of women's housing problems in Taiwan 152 Herng-Dar Bih and Yi-Ling Chen 10A gender study on housing rights of women in urban China: case study of a single-parent female domestic workers' group 171 Guo Hui-min 11Women and housing inequalities in Hong Kong 187 Chan Kam Wah 12Conclusion 203 Patricia Kennett Notes 206 References 215 Index 243
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