HoRNet

1
Feminist geographic perspectives on family life

• Family/ HH definitions and distinctions
• The family as a greedy institution highly
  gendered structures of constraint (guilt, love,
  duty etc.)
• The HH increasingly significant in feminist
  research where it variously functions
• as a barometer of social and demographic change
• as a tool (site and scale) of geographic analysis
• as a major welfare provider (little welfare
  state)

2
The family-HH crucible

• New varieties of HH composition (not always
  common pot) highlighting ties that bind
  within/ between/ intersections
• Shift from unit to lens (crucible) fresh
  focus on dynamic interactions negotiations,
  conflict and compromise
• Recognising diverse coping/ livelihood monetary/
  non-monetary chains of exploitation networks and
  geographies