Accommodating Inequality: Gender and Housing Watson Sophie
Accommodating Inequality: Gender and Housing Watson Sophie Originally published in 1988, Accommodating Inequality provides a basis for a radical re-think of housing policy and provision in Australia…
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Accommodating Inequality: Gender and Housing Watson Sophie
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. At the time the book was originally published housing policy at a theoretical or research level was less explored. It explores the way that housing in Australia helped to produce patriarchal family structures and simultaneously contributed to the dependence of women on men.
The book raised new questions and challenged old debates and provides a clear framework within which feminist housing policy can be situated. Issues such as marginalisation, poverty and low income, domestic responsibility are discussed in relation to housing.