Women’s Homelessness in Europe

This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women’s homelessness. Drawing together work from Europe’s leading homelessness scholars, it presents a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of this acute social problem, inclu...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mayock, Paula (Editor), Bretherton, Joanne (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
Subjects:
Sex
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction;  Joanne Bretherton and Paula Mayock
  • Part I. Historical Legacies, Cultural Images and Welfare States
  • Chapter 1. Women’s Homelessness: An Historical Perspective; Eoin O’Sullivan
  • Chapter 2. Cultural Images and Definitions of Homeless Women: Implications for Policy and Practice at the European Level; Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand and Deborah Quilgars
  • Chapter 3. Women’s Homelessness and Welfare States; Joanne Bretherton, Lars Benjaminsen and Nicholas Pleace
  • Part II. Issues, Challenges and Solutions
  • Chapter 4. Exclusion by Definition: The Underrepresentation of Women in European Homelessness Statistics; Nicholas Pleace
  • Chapter 5. Women’s Homelessness and Domestic Violence – (In)visible Interactions; Paula Mayock, Joanne Bretherton and Isabel Baptista
  • Chapter 6. The Health of Homeless Women; Judith Wolf, Isobel Anderson, Linda van den Dries and Maša Filipovič Hrast
  • Chapter 7. Mothers who Experience Homelessness; Linda van den Dries, Paula Mayock, Susanne Gerull, Tessa van Loenen, Bente van Hulst and Judith Wolf
  • Chapter 8. Long-term and Recurrent Homelessness among Women; Nicholas Pleace, Joanne Bretherton and Paula Mayock
  • Chapter 9. Migrant Women and Homelessness; Magdalena Mostowska and Sarah Sheridan
  • Conclusions; Paula Mayock and Joanne Bretherton