Women and the Family Home: Legal and Social Change in Postwar England

by Rosemary Auchmuty

This book places case law in its social context to demonstrate that from the 1940s to the present, English property law has discriminated against women in respect of the family home. To acquire a share under an implied trust a woman had to make a financial contribution, yet women were denied access to jobs with which to earn the money to make it. The law assumed that housework and child care were women's work, but assigned that work no economic value...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855217449
• ISBN13: 9781855217447
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 250 Pages