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. 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. 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 The volumes in this set, originally published between 1933 and 1988, come from sociology, politics, philosophy, economics, health and education. They explore a particular level at which the concept of equality must be applied if educational equality is to be realised; present a philosophical analysis of the principle of equality.