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Re-possessing "Home": A re-analysis of Gender, Home Ownership and Debtor Default for Feminist Legal Theory

Fox, Lorna

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Authors

Lorna Fox



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L Fox O'Mahony dla0lf@durham.ac.uk
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Abstract

The current credit crisis has brought the subject of subprime and other problematic debt to the forefront of many agendas - both political and personal. This article explores some of the underlying legal, theoretical, economic, and phenomenological issues associated with default and foreclosure, particularly as they affect women homeowners. The analysis is embedded in feminist discourse on home, from traditional critiques of the association between women and home to evolving conceptions of the benefits and the burdens of home for contemporary feminist theory. This article traces the ideas of "home" and "homeownership" for American women and considers how it might be appropriate to respond to the risks associated with challenges to affordable homeownership through the lens of feminist legal theory.

Citation

Fox, L. (2008). Re-possessing "Home": A re-analysis of Gender, Home Ownership and Debtor Default for Feminist Legal Theory. William & Mary journal of women and the law, 14(3), Article 2

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2008
Deposit Date Jul 13, 2011
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal William and Mary journal of women and the law.
Print ISSN 1081-549X
Publisher William & Mary School of Law
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 14
Issue 3
Article Number 2
Keywords Mortgage and repossession, Gender, Feminist, Theory, Home.
Publisher URL http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmjowl/vol14/iss3/2

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