This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of womens homelessness. Drawing together work from Europes 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 womens experience of sustained and recurrent homelessness. Working from diverse perspectives, the authors look at the responses to womens 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 to womens experiences when they become homeless. This innovative and timely edited volume will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, social policy, anthropology, and gender and womens studies, along with international policy-makers.
Introduction; ?Joanne Bretherton and Paula Mayock.- Part I. Historical Legacies, Cultural Images and Welfare States.- Chapter 1. Womens Homelessness: An Historical Perspective; Eoin OSullivan.- Chapter 2. Cultural Images and Definitions of Homeless Women: Implications for Policy and Practice at the European Level; Cecilia Hansen L?fstrand and Deborah Quilgars.- Chapter 3. Womens Homelessness and Welfare States; Joanne Bretherton, Lars Benjaminsen and Nicholas Pleace.- Part II. Issues, Challenges and Solutions.- Chapter 4. Exclusion by Definition: The Underrepresentation of Women in European Homelessness Statistics; Nicholas Pleace.- Chapter 5. Womens Homelessness and Domestic Violence (In)visible Interactions; Paula Mayock, Joanne Bretherton and Isabel Baptista.- Chapter 6. The Health of Homeless Women; Judith Wolf, Isobel Anderson, Linda van den Dries and Maaa Filipovi1 Hrast.- Chapter 7. Mothers who Experience Homelessness; Linda van den Dries, Paula Mayock,lsĒ
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