Feeling at Home

Praise

“This is an insightful and necessary book by one of the most promising feminist thinkers working today. The analysis is sharp, accessible, and timely. The short, punchy chapters never outstay their welcome, and there is a wonderful diversity of approach which is impressive in such a short book. Feeling at Home is a vital resource for anybody interested in the ways we organise our domestic lives.”
—Helen Hester, author of Xenofeminism, co-author of After Work

“Feeling At Home makes a compelling political case for something housing movements seem to forget: more homes, even very affordable ones, will not dismantle a fundamentally harmful and exploitative system. Gotby points toward a new horizon where housing can be a means of radically reshaping family, care, and society.”
—Leslie Kern, author of Feminist City

“In the best traditions of Marxism and feminism, Alva Gotby insists on asking far better questions. The result is this sophisticated, humane and exciting book.Feeling at Homeis a multi-point perspective that reveals everything that ‘home’ means, and – more importantly – ought to mean. It makes the radical seem obvious, and the impossible seem essential”
—Nick Bano, author of Against Landlords

“This is an insightful and necessary book by one of the most promising feminist thinkers working today. The analysis is sharp, accessible, and timely. The short, punchy chapters never outstay their welcome, and there is a wonderful diversity of approach which is impressive in such a short book. Feeling at Home is a vital resource for anybody interested in the ways we organise our domestic lives.”
—Helen Hester, co-author of After Work

“An important focus on the complex and multi-layered nature of home and the housing question, and why we still need to fight for it.”
—Andrea Gibbons, author of City of Segregation

“In her riveting new book, formidable scholar and organiser Alva Gotby tackles the personal and social calamities created by our continuing housing crisis. With elegant precision, Gotby shows how we can and must help restore the hope and vision necessary for the collective struggle for better homes for all, eliminating the widespread sense of powerlessness generated by housing precarity and instability. Feeling at Home is an essential resource for winning that struggle.”
—The Care Collective, authors of The Care Manifesto

“An important contribution to debates around social reproduction, care, the family and home. In this set of essays Alva Gotby sets new horizons for the housing justice movement, laying out terrain for discussion – and struggle.”
—Isaac Rose, author of Rentier City