“We Do Get Stereotyped”: Gender, Housing, Work and Social Disadvantage

Saugères, Lise

doi:10.1080/14036090802476606

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“…The analysis of evidence indicates both direct and indirect housing and labour market processes (for example, Munro and Smith (1989); Skaburskis (1997); Christie (2000). It also shows housing market processes' embedding in cultural systems of value, conferred via the meaning of home, family and community (for example , Bennett 2004;Chapman 1996;Dowling 1998;Gabriel 2008;González-González et al 2011;Hughes 1997;Madigan, Munro, and Smith, 1990;Midgley 2006;Redclift and Whatmore 1990;Saugeres 2009;Shortall 2002;Smith 1990b). How can these insights be combined with a critical realist approach?…”

Section: A Place In Housing Studiesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Synthesizing Feminist and Critical Realist Approaches to Housing Studies

Satsangi

2013

Housing, Theory and Society

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This paper seeks to make a contribution to debate on the epistemological base of housing studies. I argue that there are benefits from seeking an approach that combines key features of critical realist and standpoint feminist positions. Debate in housing studies' cognate disciplines suggests that these theoretical stances are not inconsistent and I find principles for their being used in concert. The paper shows how those principles are taken forward in parts of the literature. I identify the extent of exposure of housing studies to critical realist and feminist meta-theoretical debate and suggest the analytical implications of a feminist realist approach.

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Section: A Place In Housing Studiesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Synthesizing Feminist and Critical Realist Approaches to Housing Studies

Satsangi

2013

Housing, Theory and Society

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“…These inequalities are demonstrable by housing location, where there is a lack of access to transport and other services such as education, job-search, legal and social services (Saugeres 2009;Law & Ewens 2010;Wendt 2010). These inequalities are demonstrable by housing location, where there is a lack of access to transport and other services such as education, job-search, legal and social services (Saugeres 2009;Law & Ewens 2010;Wendt 2010).…”

Section: The Domestic Violence/homelessness and Employment Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many researchers have established that broader social inequalities for women escaping domestic violence are intensified on the basis of women's housing choice following exit from supported accommodation. These inequalities are demonstrable by housing location, where there is a lack of access to transport and other services such as education, job-search, legal and social services (Saugeres 2009;Law & Ewens 2010;Wendt 2010). What this suggests is that breaking into the job market following service exit may become even more difficult when women are relegated to living in locations that further limit their opportunities.…”

Section: The Domestic Violence/homelessness and Employment Nexusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Domestic violence, housing and employment: Workers' perspectives on employment assistance in supported accommodation

McLaren¹

2013

Aust J Social Issues

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In response to contemporary understanding about the association between financial security and women's ability to escape domestic violence and homelessness, this paper reports on a small scale pilot study conducted with workers from generalist homelessness services and domestic violence-supported accommodation services in South Australia on responding to women's requests for assistance to seek employment. Workers from both accommodation service types advised that approximately one third of women at their services asked for employment-related assistance at the point of service intake or soon after. Although relatively few women received employment support following their requests, assistance was four times more likely at the generalist homelessness services than the domestic violence services. Agency priorities, philosophies and workers' assessments of women's capacity to engage in employment were cited as reasons for not responding to women's employment requests. Women who secured employment prior to service exit, whether helped to do so or not, were perceived as more confident with the prospect of supporting their families independently following exit and more able to secure suitable housing when compared to other women. Follow-up and outreach visits indicated that women who worked had a stronger sense of financial security, housing stability and social connectedness, but that maintaining employment following service exit was difficult.

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“…In addition, definitions of 'resilience' or 'coping' may not be conceptualised in such terms by those in poverty, whose responses to their circumstances are often doxic (taken for granted) and perceived as a set of routinized practices: mundane, ordinary, normal and 'common sense' (Oliver and Reilly, 2010;Giddens, 1991;Stokoe, 2003;Savage et al, 2001;Allen et al, 2007;Saugeres, 2009;Mohaupt, 2008).…”

Section: Regimes Of Judgementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Particular regimes apply to women, mothering and domestic management, in a lineage from Victorian public morality to contemporary reality and talk show television programmes (Skeggs and Wood;Stokoe, 2003;Delap, 2011). This wider social order is not solely generated by elite discourses, with the performance of labour and providing for one's family being a major value in working class lives (Skeggs and Wood, 2008;Orr et al, 2006;Dolan, 2007;Charlesworth, 2000;Hoggart, 1957), often generating feelings of shame, powerlessness and embarrassment in accepting support from the state, family or friends (Creegan et al, 2009;Saugeres, 2009). …”

Section: Regimes Of Judgementmentioning

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Talking ‘bout poor folks (thinking ‘bout my folks): perspectives on comparative poverty in working class households

Batty

Flint

2012

International Journal of Housing Policy

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This paper explores concepts and narratives of comparative poverty articulated by residents of six working class neighbourhoods in Britain and examines how individuals' assessments of self were influenced by comparisons to other social groups. The paper presents empirical findings to suggest the need for more nuanced sociological and policy understandings of working class experience and alternative explanations for quiescence with inequality. Our findings suggest disconnections between research emphasising relative deprivation and stigmatisation, a drive to evaluate economic status and the centrality of a comparative relational framework for perceptions of poverty; and the actual lens' through which many working class individuals conceptualise their circumstances. The denial of a social comparative paradigm was generated by circumstances being doxic (or taken for granted), the rejection of a 'poverty' label, the importance of self-trajectories and the ambivalent and nuanced relationships between material wealth, happiness and moral worth. However, a limited comparative gaze upon more affluent groups was contrasted with strong narratives of respectability and legitimacy juxtaposed with those groups deemed not to adhere to these working class values. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for housing policy.

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“We Do Get Stereotyped”: Gender, Housing, Work and Social Disadvantage

Cited by 24 publications

References 26 publications

Synthesizing Feminist and Critical Realist Approaches to Housing Studies

Synthesizing Feminist and Critical Realist Approaches to Housing Studies

Domestic violence, housing and employment: Workers' perspectives on employment assistance in supported accommodation

Talking ‘bout poor folks (thinking ‘bout my folks): perspectives on comparative poverty in working class households

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