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Households, families, and structural inequalities: Reflections on “How the other half lives”
Author(s) -
Hopkins Peter
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12644
Subject(s) - inequality , sociology , focus (optics) , structural inequality , gender studies , economic geography , geography , mathematics , mathematical analysis , physics , optics
Tivers’ landmark paper about the geographical study of women published in Area in 1978 raised significant issues for the discipline when it was published. I review Tivers’ paper and draw attention to three issues that remain pertinent for geographers. First, I explore the need to be critical about the concept of the household. Second, I reflect on the attention that geographers have given to the family. Finally, I re‐emphasise the importance of continuing to focus on structural inequalities as Tivers initially suggested in 1978.