In: Housing and society series
1. Introduction : women and housing systems / Chan Kam Wah and 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 / Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and 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 / Richard Ronald and Mieko Hinokidani -- 9. Neo-liberalization and the invisibility of women's housing problems in Taiwan / Herng-Dar Bih and 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.
In: Housing and society series
In: Housing and Society Ser.
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
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