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.

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

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.