Accommodating Inequality
Gender and Housing
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2023
170 pages
978-1-000-83934-0 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1988, Accommodating Inequality provides a basis for a radical re-think of housing policy and provision in Australia from a gender perspective. It explores the way that housing in Australia helped to produce patriarchal family structures and simultaneously contributed to the dependence of women on men. At the time the book was originally published housing policy at a theoretical or research level was less explored. Issues such as marginalisation, poverty and low income, domestic responsibility are discussed in relation to housing. The book raised new questions and challenged old debates and provides a clear framework within which feminist housing policy can be situated.
Reviews / Votes
Review of the original edition of Accommodating Inequality:'As a set of readings on gender and housing, Accommodating Inequality represents a useful introductory text...' David Hayward, Children Australia 13 (4).
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-000-83934-0 (9781000839340)
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Person
Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK.
Content
1. Housing Women: An Historical Perspective 2. Women and Housing, or Feminist Housing Analysis? 3. Whose Great Australian Dream? Home Ownership and the Exclusion of Women 4. On the Margins: women in the Private Rental Sector 5. Why Be a Wife? Housing after Divorce 6. Sexual Divisions in Old Age: A National Profile 7. On the Scrap Heap: Older Women, Housing Issues and Perspectives 8. Gender and Urban Theory.
