Keith Hoggart Bücher

The book explores how governance regimes prior to the 1970s hindered rural housing improvements and favored middle-class interests. Utilizing original archival sources, it reveals that poor rural housing outcomes are more attributable to national governance than to local failures. By examining policy processes, it uncovers overlooked principles in national governance and emphasizes the importance of rural housing in understanding broader national issues. The work provides fresh insights and challenges conventional views in public policy, housing, and rural studies.

Much of the literature published so far on gender relations in rural areas has either focused on comparisons of the position of men and women, or explored the position of women given prevailing structural forces and behavioural 'norms' that restrict the autonomy of women as human agents. This groundbreaking book broadens the debate by developing our understanding of how societal processes produce and sustain gender divisions, particularly in rural areas, highlighting aspects of rural women's lives previously invisible in the literature. Illustrated by case studies from France, Germany, Greece, Norway and Sweden, the book examines the critical issues of education and training, entrepreneurship, leadership, limited work and service opportunities, social mobility, and work experiences. In doing so, the contributors provide a fascinating comparative study of both national-regional and broader European realities.