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WOMEN AND MARRIAGE: THE HOUSING CONSEQUENCES OF OPTING OUT

This thesis reviews the housing-related implications of separation and divorce for women. It arges that the housing circumstances must be placed within a broader perspective of the social and economic consequences and ideological environment surrounding divorce. In the same way, operation of the housing system must be placed within a wider context, particularly in relation to the degree of change in its operational environment within the last 20 years. The thesis finds that the circumstances surrounding leaving a marriage are personally traumatic, and lead to a period of economic, housing and personal crisis. Over time, although the tendency is for establishment of re-equlibrium, considerable disadvantages prevail for women. The quickest method of establishing re-equilibrium for women is to repartner.

  1. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/398
Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/215958
Date January 1993
CreatorsYOUNG, Coral
PublisherUniversity of Sydney, Urban and Regional Planning
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish, en_AU
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsCopyright YOUNG, Coral;http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/copyright.html

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