Accommodating Inequality: Gender and Housing

by Sophie Watson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032438016
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/31/2023
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Inequality
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sophie Watson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK.

Table of Contents

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.

Editorial Reviews

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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