Juliet Watson

Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex

Intimate Relationships and Gendered Subjectivities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Youth Homelessness and Survival Sex, Watson's analysis of personal narratives reveals how young homeless women are exposed to situations in which survival can be impeded or assisted by playing out specific gender roles. This book shows that homelessness is not a gender-neutral phenomenon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780367354824
• ISBN-10: 0367354829
• Artikelnr.: 57004280

Autorenporträt

Juliet Watson is a lecturer in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, at RMIT University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction: youth homelessness
gender
and the significance of survival sexChapter 2. Young homeless women and the neoliberal subjectChapter 3. Social capital
performativity
and gendered subjectivities in the homeless sphereChapter 4. Survival sex
stigma
and managing material conditionsChapter 5. Survival sex and gender-based violenceChapter 6. Intimate relationships
social exclusion
and belongingChapter 7. Constructing authentic selvesChapter 8. Conclusion: diversifying homelessnessAppendix: more storiesIndex