Accommodating Inequality

Gender and Housing

Sophie Watson

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Routledge
01 February 2025

Homelessness; Gender studies, gender groups; Sociology: family & relationships; Regional & area planning; Civil engineering, surveying & building

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Inequality

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.

By: Sophie Watson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 310g
ISBN: 9781032438085
ISBN 10: 1032438088
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Inequality
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 01 February 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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

Reviews for Accommodating Inequality: Gender and Housing

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).