Paula Mayock is Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.Joanne Bretherton is Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, UK.

• Introduction;  Joanne Bretherton and Paula Mayock.- Part I. Historical Legacies, Cultural Images and Welfare States.- Chapter 1. Women’s Homelessness: An Historical Perspective; Eoin O’Sullivan.- Chapter 2. Cultural Images and Definitions of Homeless Women: Implications for Policy and Practice at the European Level; Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand and Deborah Quilgars.- Chapter 3. Women’s Homelessness and Welfare States; Joanne Bretherton, Lars Benjaminsen and Nicholas Pleace.- Part II. Issues, Challenges and Solutions.- Chapter 4. Exclusion by Definition: The Underrepresentation of Women in European Homelessness Statistics; Nicholas Pleace.- Chapter 5. Women’s Homelessness and Domestic Violence – (In)visible Interactions; Paula Mayock, Joanne Bretherton and Isabel Baptista.- Chapter 6. The Health of Homeless Women; Judith Wolf, Isobel Anderson, Linda van den Dries and Maša Filipovič Hrast.- Chapter 7. Mothers who Experience Homelessness; Linda van den Dries, Paula Mayock, Susanne Gerull, Tessa van Loenen, Bente van Hulst and Judith Wolf.- Chapter 8. Long-term and Recurrent Homelessness among Women; Nicholas Pleace, Joanne Bretherton and Paula Mayock.- Chapter 9. Migrant Women and Homelessness; Magdalena Mostowska and Sarah Sheridan.- Conclusions; Paula Mayock and Joanne Bretherton.

“The volume successfully highlights the way in which gender expectations intersect with power structures to inform women’s vulnerability to and experience of homelessness, producing a convincing and coherent argument as to the gendered nature of homelessness and the urgent need for academics and policy makers to understand it as such. As such, it would be of great value to scholars with an interest in housing, homelessness, or gender.” (Kesia Reeve, European Journal of Homelessness, Vol. 11 (2), September, 2017)