Living on the Streets in Japan: Homeless Women Break Their Silence

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-925608-85-4
Verlag: TRANS PACIFIC PR

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Japanese Society

Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant model of a "homeless person" has been that of an unemployed male labourer - a model that has largely excluded women, who experience homelessness in different forms. This study gives the homeless women of Japan a voice at last.

Based on extensive fieldwork, the author paints a vivid picture of the unique experiences of homeless women living in a diverse range of environments. By introducing a gender perspective to the analytic framework and challenging the conception of the homeless individual as a rational, autonomous subject, the author invites a critical reconsideration of homeless studies and of public policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maruyama, Satomi

Weitere Mitwirkende

Filler, Stephen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Figures
- Tables
- Photos
- Foreword to the English-Language Edition
- Foreword to the Original Edition
- 1 Toward an ethnography of homeless women
- 2 Who are the homeless women?
- 3 Establishing welfare for homeless women
- 4 Gender norms and the use of welfare facilities
- 5 The world of women who sleep rough
- 6 Continuing and ending rough sleeping
- 7 The process of change
- 8 Resisting the spell of the autonomous subject
- Epilogue
- Afterword
- Notes
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Satomi Maruyama is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Letters of Kyoto University. Her research interests include poverty research, gender theory and welfare sociology. Her research is based on fieldwork conducted with homeless females to analyze the relationship between poverty and gender.