Women and homelessness - issues of maternal identity, parenting and reproductive health
A symposium hosted by the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam University and the Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)
At the Quaker Meeting House, Sheffield
November 25th 2019
This symposium invites contributions from people interested in exploring homelessness, motherhood and reproductive health from theoretical, policy, practice and experiential perspectives. It will consider the way in which homeless women, those with maternal experiences in particular, are situated at the intersection of different policy domains - housing, homelessness, health, social care - where they have to navigate welfare conditionality, care, and legal and moral frameworks that shape their experiences. It will explore issues and themes of relevance to homeless women. We know, for example, that homeless women separated from their children are rarely acknowledged as mothers, and that women experiencing homelessness face particular challenges as parents; we know that reproductive and maternal trauma features in many women's pathways to homelessness; we know that women can struggle to manage, or lose control of reproductive health during periods of homelessness. Yet there has been very limited attention to these issues in the policy and research communities or to gendered aspects of homelessness generally. As a result, policy and practice responses to homelessness often fail to meet the needs of homeless women.
Further information is available here:
here https://www4.shu.ac.uk/research/cresr/news/women-and-homelessness-symposium
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