Accommodating Inequality - Gender and Housing

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.

List 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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sophie Watson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032438085
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243808-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Inequality
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Sociology: family & relationships, Regional & area planning, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: family and relationships, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, Regional and area planning, Civil engineering, surveying and building