TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender, class and home ownership
T2 - placing the connections
AU - Dowling, Robyn
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - This paper contributes to understandings of how gender interacts with the social class implications of home ownership. It is argued that the connections between gender, class and home ownership have only been partially elaborated, and suggested that a more specific focus on identity and the socio-spatial context facilitates a more complex potrayal of these connections. Using material from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 60 men and omen in two neighbourhoods in Vancouver, British Columbia, it will be demonstrated that, contrary to common expectations, home ownership is an important component of both middle-class masculinity and middle-class femininity. However, there is no singular or linear connection between gender, class and home. Instead, there is conflict between familial and status expressions of home conflict that varies for men and women and according to geographical location.
AB - This paper contributes to understandings of how gender interacts with the social class implications of home ownership. It is argued that the connections between gender, class and home ownership have only been partially elaborated, and suggested that a more specific focus on identity and the socio-spatial context facilitates a more complex potrayal of these connections. Using material from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 60 men and omen in two neighbourhoods in Vancouver, British Columbia, it will be demonstrated that, contrary to common expectations, home ownership is an important component of both middle-class masculinity and middle-class femininity. However, there is no singular or linear connection between gender, class and home. Instead, there is conflict between familial and status expressions of home conflict that varies for men and women and according to geographical location.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0031659129&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/02673039883227
DO - 10.1080/02673039883227
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031659129
SN - 0267-3037
VL - 13
SP - 471
EP - 486
JO - Housing Studies
JF - Housing Studies
IS - 4
ER -