URBAN HOMELESSNESS OF WOMEN AND URBAN MARGINALITY: SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Social Sciences

This conceptual paper views that a woman’s access to land and control over the condition of homelessness has considerably mitigated due to withdrawal of services from the public sphere resulting in “advanced marginality” (Feldman, L.2004).This evidences the fact that women constitute one of the most vulnerable groups worst affected by homelessness owing to extreme levels of urban poverty. The disadvantaged positioning of women due to urban poverty in the society is studied from a Marxist Feminist perspective. The invisibility of increasing urban homelessness of women in urban cities of India is explored using the theoretical views of Marx and C.Wright Mills to interpret how ‘urban marginalization of women’ is maintained by the condition of homelessness.

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