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