Main description:

Female problem gambling is a seriously underexplored area. This is the first book to bring together international experts on the subject.

Contents:

Introduction - Bowden-Jones and Prever

Part 1: AFRICA

Gambling Amongst South African Women: An Exploration of the impact of gambling over the past twenty years - De Vries
Part 2: AMERICA

Gender comparative analysis of gambling patterns in Canada - Sylvia Kairouz, Eva Monson & Chantal Robillard

Gambling Disorder Impacts Homeless to Affluent Women in the US - Carla J. Rash*, Ph.D., & Nancy M. Petry, Ph.D

Women and compulsive gambling: caught between frustration and revenge - Deborah Blanca, Mariela Coletti and Juliet Russell-Roberts
Part 3: ASIA

A mother and a gambler: echoes of socio-cultural views in the perception of motherhood of Jewish Israeli women with gambling problems - Belle Gavriel-Fried

A Review of Literature Gambling Problems Among the Female Populations in Hong Kong - Leung Artemis, Wing-Chi
Part 4: EUROPE

Factors influencing treatment-seeking behavior in female pathological gamblers: A comparison of treatment centers in Austria and Germany - Laura Brandt & Andrea Woehr

Gambling Problems in Women: French Specificities - Melanie Bruneau, Morgane Guillou-Landreat, Gaelle Bouju, Juliette Leboucher, Anne Sauvaget, Julie Caillon, Marie Grall-Bronnec

Female gambling in Italy: A specific clinical experience - Fulvia Prever and Valeria Locati

Gender and Responsible Gambling in Spain - Susana Jimenez-Murcia, Roser Granero, Eva Penelo, Frida Froeberg, Neus Aymami, Monica Gomez-Pena, Katarina Gunnard, Miriam Nasarre, Lamprini G. Savvidou, Nuria Mallorqui-Bague

Gambling and gender in Sweden - Svensson

Effectiveness of Self-Exclusion: The Experiences of Female Gamblers in Three Swiss Casinos- Anna-Maria Sani and Coralie Zumwald

The "re-feminisation" of gambling: social, cultural and historical insights into female gambling behaviour in Great Britain - Heather Wardle

Overcoming barriers: a relational exploration of the treatment of women in an NHS problem gambling service in the UK - Angela Mooney and Anna Kaufman

Getting Your Money For Nothing': Narratives of Self and Value in Women's 'At-Home' Gambling Practices - Emma Casey

Changes and Repeating Patterns 2001-2015 - Liz Karter

Women and Gambling: a UK Perspective - Amanda Roberts, Ruth Champion and Susanne Irving
Part 5: OCEANIA

A review of research into problem gambling amongst Australian women - Nerilee Hing, Elaine Nuske, Helen Breen

Gender Differences in Risk and Protective Factors for Problem Gambling - Nicki A. Dowling and Erin Oldenhof

Nga Pou Wahine: Gambling misuse and Maori women in New Zealand - Laurie Morrison