Housing Women

ISBN-13: 9780415094634 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 296 str.

Rose Gilroy; Rose Gilroy

Opis

This edited collection presents a comprehensive examination of women's relationship to housing as consumers and managers of housing services. It begins with a discussion of women's experience of housing as buyers of property and users of housing services. Income differentials, the dominance of the needs of the nuclear family in housing forms and the ways in which housing allocations policies often discriminate against women are examined in detail. Subsequent discussion looks at women as producers of housing and assesses the structures within which they have to work.

Recenzje

`The great value of the collection is that it brings together in a single place a number of diverse issues relating to women and housing. ... This is useful book and, as the authors intended, offers a broad and accessible introduction to students from a range of disciplines of the relevant issues.' - Housing Studies

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Women and the Meaning of Home 3. Women and Owner Occupation in Britain: First the Prince then the Palace? 4. Women and Participation 5. Older Women and Housing - Prospects for the 1990s 6. Black Women and Housing 7. Young Women and Homelessness 8. "The Struggle Has Never Simply Been About Bricks and Mortar": Lesbians' Experience of Housing 9. Snakes or Ladders? - Women and Equal Opportunities in Education and Training for Housing 10. Women Achievers in Housing: the Career Paths of Women Chief Housing Officers 11. Questioning the American Dream: Recent Housing Innovations in the United States 12. Innovative Housing in the UK and Europe 13. An Agenda for Action: Issues of Choice, Freedom and Control

O autorze

Rose Gilroy is Lecturer in Housing Policy and Management at the University of Newcastle. Roberta Woods is Lecturer in Social Policy, also at the University of Newcastle.