Women’s Homelessness in Europe

1. Introduction
Joanne Bretherton, Paula Mayock

Part I. Historical Legacies, Cultural Images and Welfare States

2. Women’s Homelessness: A Historical Perspective
Eoin O’Sullivan

3. Cultural Images and Definitions of Homeless Women: Implications for Policy and Practice at the European Level
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand, Deborah Quilgars

4. Women’s Homelessness and Welfare States
Joanne Bretherton, Lars Benjaminsen, Nicholas Pleace

Part II. Issues, Challenges and Solutions

5. Exclusion by Definition: The Under-representation of Women in European Homelessness Statistics
Nicholas Pleace

6. Women’s Homelessness and Domestic Violence: (In)visible Interactions
Paula Mayock, Joanne Bretherton, Isabel Baptista

7. The Health of Homeless Women
Judith Wolf, Isobel Anderson, Linda Dries, Maša Filipovič Hrast

8. Mothers Who Experience Homelessness
Linda Dries, Paula Mayock, Susanne Gerull, Tessa Loenen, Bente Hulst, Judith Wolf

9. Long-term and Recurrent Homelessness Among Women
Nicholas Pleace, Joanne Bretherton, Paula Mayock

10. Migrant Women and Homelessness
Magdalena Mostowska, Sarah Sheridan

11. Conclusions
Paula Mayock, Joanne Bretherton

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Gender Studies, Poverty, Aid and Development, Politics of the Welfare State, Comparative Social Policy, European Politics