Savvy Investors and Domestic Goddesses? New Challenges for Feminist Housing Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12633344 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Gabriel (University of Tasmania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 191-201 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Housing Theory and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1403-6096 • E-ISSN: 1651-2278 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14036090802117713 |
| OpenAlex | W2005415404 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 34 |
The arrival of savvy female investors and domestic goddesses in mainstream media poses considerable challenges for a feminist housing research agenda that was once aimed squarely at accommodating gender equality within the housing market and the urban landscape. In this paper, I outline some of the ways that feminist scholarship is being reformulated in response to theoretical critiques from within the social sciences, namely the destabilization of a unified female identity and the unpacking of master concepts such as patriarchy. Here I chart the rise of feminist standpoint theory, which provides some intermediary solutions to these critiques, as well as the limits of this position. I then suggest some strategies for reinvigorating feminist housing scholarship which has lost some momentum since the publication of Sophie Watson's groundbreaking work on gender and housing in the 1980s. This reformulation I contend is important in analysing and interpreting recent shifts in women's housing careers and domestic lives, as well as broadening the gender‐agenda to include consideration of the negotiation of masculinity and femininity within contemporary housing markets and homes
Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
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What women want
Feminist Epistemologies and the Social Relations of Housing Provision
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The grand domestic revolution
Sexuality and the Suburban Dream
The Feminist Standpoint
Damned whores and God's police
The Sociology of Housework
Questions of Cultural Identity
Reassembling the Social
Gender Trouble
Feminism, Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Postmodernism
Gender, Identity and Place
Mortgage Arrears and Gender Inequalities
Gender, Class and Home Ownership
Sexual Divisions
Strange Standpoints
Gender Differences in Housing Demand
Income, Housing Wealth and Gender Inequality
Discovering Reality
After Method
Rethinking the terms of tenure
Gender and the meaning of the home
A Woman's Place
Masculine Cities and Feminine Suburbs
Feminist Theory
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The Strength of Weak Ties
Learning from the Outsider Within
I'm not his Wife
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Truth and Method
| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2018 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |