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.
Author(s): Sophie Watson
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Inequality, 9
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 168
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Preface
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
Bibliography
Index
