A Woman's Place: A Feminist Approach to Housing in Britain

Abstract

An exciting development in the women’s movement over the last few years has been an attempt by feminists to organise together around housing issues and to develop a feminist analysis of how the organisation of housing in Britain specifically affects women. This is not to say that women have not played an important and active role in numerous tenant struggles. In the famous rent strike on the Clyde in 1915, which resulted in legislation to control the level of rents, women demonstrated in their thousands, filled the court-rooms when tenants faced eviction and were the organisers of the struggle. More recently accounts of women confronting the rent collectors in Northern Ireland with the din of beating pots and pans are typical of women’s involvement in housing campaigns before and since (Cowley, 1980).

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