Title & Author:

Housing women / edited by Rose Gilroy and Roberta Woods.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Description:

xiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction / Roberta Woods -- 2. Women and the meaning of home / Jane Darke -- 3. Women and owner occupation in Britain: first the prince, then the palace? / Rose Gilroy -- 4. Women and participation / Marianne Hood and Roberta Woods -- 5. Older women and housing -- prospects for the 1990s / Roger Sykes -- 6. Black women and housing / Perminder Dhillon-Kashyap -- 7. Young women and homelessness / Anne Douglas and Rose Gilroy -- 8. 'The struggle has never been simply about bricks and mortar': lesbians' experience of housing / Julia Smailes -- 9. Snakes or ladders? -- Women and equal opportunities in education and training for housing / Marion Brion -- 10. Women achievers in housing: the career paths of women chief housing officers / Veronica Coatham and Janet Hale -- 11. Questioning the American dream: recent housing innovations in the United States / Karen A. Franck -- 12. Innovative housing in the UK and Europe / Tom Woolley.

Summary:

Explores the impact of policy on specific groups of women and the role that they play as both tenants and managers in shpaing a service and housing design around their particular needs.

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ISBN:

0415094623
9780415094627
0415094631 (pbk.)
9780415094634 (pbk.)

Subject:

Börngen
Women Housing Congresses.
Housing policy Congresses.
Women Social conditions Congresses.
Femmes Logement Congrès.
Logement Politique gouvernementale Congrès.
Femmes Conditions sociales Congrès.
Housing policy
Women Housing
Women Social conditions
Wohnung
Kongress
Frau
Huisvestingsbeleid.
Vrouwen.
Sociale relaties.
Women.
Womyn.
Great Britain
huisvesting
housing
vrouwen
wensen
desires
vrouwenemancipatie
emancipation of women
gelijke behandeling van de vrouw
female equality
feminisme
feminism
westerse wereld
western world
Social Sciences (General)
Sociale wetenschappen (algemeen)
Medical Humanities.

Form/genre:

Kongreß Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1991.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Gilroy, Rose.
Woods, Roberta, 1957-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 81345
Call No.: ID HD7286.H6; ID:95-B266
Status: Available