| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 247 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Housing and society series |
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Housing and society series.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: women and housing systems / Patricia Kennett -- 2. Women's housing rights: is anything wrong with the international norm? / Ingrid Westendorp -- 3. Women and housing: the Australian experience / Selina Tually -- 4. Women and housing affordability in the United States / Elizabeth A. Mulroy -- 5. Social change and housing systems: the case of women in Spain / Teresa Sanchez-Martinez -- 6. Women's housing in Sweden / Ingrid Sahlin -- 7. Women, housing and citizenship in Great Britain / Patricia Kennett -- 8. Moving beyond the standard family model: the emerging housing situations of women in Japan / Mieko Hinokidani -- 9. Neo-liberalization and the invisibility of women's housing problems in Taiwan / Yi-Ling Chen -- 10. A gender study on housing rights of women in urban China: case study of a single-parent female domestic workers' group / Guo Hui-Min -- 11. Women and housing inequalities in Hong Kong / Chan Kam Wah -- 12. Conclusion / Patricia Kennett |
| Summary |
This collection explores the housing circumstances of women in developed and emerging societies in Europe, USA and East Asia, at a time of substantial economic and social change. Its focus is on the interface between housing and gender and how this socially constructed relationship manifests and transforms over time and space |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Housing policy.
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Housing -- Sex differences
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Sex discrimination against women.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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Housing policy
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Sex discrimination against women
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kennett, Patricia, 1959-
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Chan, Kam Wah.
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| LC no. |
2010023821 |
| ISBN |
9780203818930 |
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0203818938 |
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1136739629 |
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9781136739620 |
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1136739637 |
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9781136739637 |
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1283040077 |
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9781283040075 |
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9786613040077 |
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661304007X |
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