Housing Women
Author: Rose Gilroy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-26
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 113486860X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Women and Housing
Author: Patricia Kennett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-12-07
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1136739629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities of women. The collection seeks to contribute to comparative housing debates by highlighting the gendered nature of housing processes, locating these processes within wider structured and institutionalized relations of power, and to show how these socially constructed relationships are culturally contingent, and manifest and transform over time and space. The international contributors draw on a wide range of empirical evidence relating to labour market participation, wealth distribution, family formation and education to demonstrate the complexity and gendered nature of the interlocking arenas of production, reproduction and consumption and the implications for the housing opportunities of women in different social contexts. Worldwide examples are drawn from Australia, China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan and the USA.
Women, Human Settlements, and Housing
Author: Caroline O. N. Moser
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780422618601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiving in a Man-made World
Author: Marion Roberts
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780415057479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Right to Housing
Author: Rachel G. Bratt
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781592134335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of America's housing crisis by the leading progressive housing activists in the country.
Redesigning the American Dream
Author: Dolores Hayden
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780393303179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe noted feminist theorist argues for a new conception of architectural design and outlines housing plans that will support new patterns of nurturing and opportunity for a range of individuals and families
Modern Housing
Author: Catherine Bauer
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2020-04-14
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 1452963223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement Originally published in 1934, Modern Housing is widely acknowledged as one of the most important books on housing of the twentieth century, introducing the latest developments in European modernist housing to an American audience. It is also a manifesto: America needs to draw on Europe’s example to solve its housing crisis. Only when housing is transformed into a planned, public amenity will it truly be modern. Modern Housing’s sharp message catalyzed an intense period of housing activism in the United States, resulting in the Housing Act of 1937, which Catherine Bauer coauthored. But these reforms never went far enough: so long as housing remained the subject of capitalist speculation, Bauer knew the housing problem would remain. In light of today’s affordable housing emergency, her prescriptions for how to achieve humane and dignified modern housing remain as instructive and urgent as ever.
The New Politics of Home
Author: Eleanor Jupp
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2019-06-26
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1447351843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHome and care are central aspects of everyday, personal lives, yet they are also shaped by political and economic change. Within a context of austerity, economic restructuring, worsening inequality and resource rationing, the policies and experiences around these key areas are shifting. Taking an interdisciplinary and feminist perspective, this book illustrates how economic and political changes affect everyday lives for many families and households in the UK. Setting out both new empirical material and new conceptual terrain, the authors draw on approaches from human geography, social policy, and feminist and political theory to explore issues of home and care in times of crisis.
Tell Them Who I Am
Author: Elliot Liebow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1993-03-12
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1439107467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHe observes them, creating portraits that are intimate and objective, while breaking down stereotypes and dehumanizing labels often used to describe the homeless. Liebow writes about their daily habits, constant struggles, their humor, compassion and strength.
Living on Your Own
Author: Jesook Song
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1438450141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiving on Your Own is an ethnography of young, single women in South Korea who seek to live independently. Using extensive interviews, along with media analysis and archival research, Jesook Song traces the women's difficulties in achieving residential autonomy. Song exposes the clash between the women's burgeoning desire for independent lives and the ongoing incursion of traditional, conservative family ideology and marriage pressure into housing practices and financial institutions. She pays particular attention to the Korean rent system and the reliance on lump-sum cash even for basic subsistence, which promotes tight control of young adults' lives by family and kinship networks. The young women whose voices feature prominently in this book are a prototype of global youth in crisis: caught between aspirations for the self-development and flexible lifestyle championed by globalizing media and communication technology and the reality of their position as flexible labor in a neoliberal economy.
