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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan
2016, 2016
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
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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