Full Description
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.
Contents
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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