Households, families, and structural inequalities

Reflections on “How the other half lives”

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8360944
AutoresPeter Hopkins (0000-0003-0445-9217, Newcastle University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen52
Número4
Páginas806-811
Fecha de publicación2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArea (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/area.12644
OpenAlexW3039047193
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas44

Tivers’ landmark paper about the geographical study of women published in Area in 1978 raised significant issues for the discipline when it was published. I review Tivers’ paper and draw attention to three issues that remain pertinent for geographers. First, I explore the need to be critical about the concept of the household. Second, I reflect on the attention that geographers have given to the family. Finally, I re‐emphasise the importance of continuing to focus on structural inequalities as Tivers initially suggested in 1978

Economic geography · Focus (optics) · Geography · Inequality · Sociology · Structural inequality · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Mathematics · Rural development and sustainability · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies