Women and Housing : An International Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780415548953 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 264 str.

Patricia Kennett; Kam-Wah Chan

Opis

This collection is concerned with exploring 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. Housing systems and opportunities are embedded within structured and institutionalised relations of power which are gendered. For example, in many countries the wider context of housing provision has been heavily influenced by attitudes surrounding the 'male breadwinner model' whereby the male wage-earner provides for a dependent wife and children, supported by the notion of a family wage. These and other perceptions reflect the structured and institutionalised relations of power which permeate the policy process and the wider world, the nature and dynamics of which are culturally contingent as shown by the contributions to this collection.Each contribution considers the historically and geographically specific relations of power and the connection and intersection between the social relations of gender and other culturally relevant forms of social division such as ethnicity, class, age, with housing. The chapters go on to identify the ways in which women's housing opportunities have been constrained or enhanced, using empirical data on women's labour market participation, wealth distribution, family formation and education. The book concludes with a focus on women's housing opportunities and circumstances and considers potential threats and barriers to women's housing access and security.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Gender and Housing in an International Context  2. Women’s Housing Rights: What is the Matter with the International Norm?  3. Women and Housing: The Australian Experience  4. Women and Housing Affordability in the United States  5. Social Change and Housing Systems: The Case of Women in Spain  6. Women’s Housing in Sweden  7.Women, Housing and Citizenship in Great Britain  8. Moving Beyond the Standard Family Model: The Emerging Housing Situation of Women in Japan  9. Neoliberalization and the Invisibility of Women’s Housing Problems in Taiwan   10. A Gender Study of the Housing Rights of Women in Urban China – a Case Study of a Single Parent Female Domestic Workers’ Group  11. Women and Housing in Hong Kong  12. Conclusion 

O autorze

Patricia Kennett is a Reader in Comparative Policy Studies and Head of the Centre for Urban Studies in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK. She has undertaken substantial research and published widely on issues relating to housing and home ownership, homelessness and social exclusion, citizenship and the welfare state in comparative perspective.

Chan Kam Wah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He mainly teaches social policy and housing policy. His major research interests are gender studies, housing studies, and social welfare and social policy analysis. Recent publications include: ‘Deconstructing the Asian Welfare Model: social equality matters’ in Journal of Asian Public Policy 1(3) 2008, The Crisis of Welfare in East Asia (Lexington, 2007, co-ed), Gender and Social Work – Theory and Practice (Chinese University Press, 2006, in Chinese, co-ed).