Overview
- Makes a significant contribution to a neglected but crucial issue
- Fills a lacuna in the literature by providing a comparative approach on women’s homelessness
- Provides students, teachers, academics, policy makers and service providers alike with innovative new material
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Historical Legacies, Cultural Images and Welfare States
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Issues, Challenges and Solutions
Reviews
“This is an important collection of nuanced analyses by top scholars of how gender shapes women’s experiences of homelessness and societal responses to it in ways that too often render women invisible to researchers, policy makers, and service providers.” (Marybeth Shinn, Vanderbilt University, Peabody College, USA)
“An assessment of the current state of knowledge about women’s homelessness in Europe is long overdue. This volume, authored by a fine selection of leading European homelessness researchers, provides an excellent overview of what we know about different aspects of women’s homelessness. This impressive collection of contributions also shows the pressing need for further research on gender dimensions of homelessness and related policy responses.” (Volker Busch-Geertsema, GISS Institute, Germany, and Co-Ordinator of the European Observatory on Homelessness, Belgium)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Joanne Bretherton is Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women’s Homelessness in Europe
Editors: Paula Mayock, Joanne Bretherton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54516-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54515-2Published: 17 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71363-9Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54516-9Published: 08 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 298
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Gender Studies, Development Aid, Politics of the Welfare State, Comparative Social Policy, European Politics