Description
Book SynopsisHomelessness 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.
Table of Contents
- 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
