ABSTRACT
In What Makes a Good City, Graham and Lowe attempt to address the nonmaterial dimensions of a good city, dimensions which are also addressed by feminist geographers such as Doreen Massey and Leonie Sandercock. They have also noted that the 'good city' is a city where the needs of all are anticipated and accommodated. That is, the 'public' spaces and the domestic spaces need to be less acutely differentiated. Graham acknowledges that there is a plurality in society which means that the Christian community 'can no longer speak with one voice'. She suggests that this is an important aspect of feminist theology that the entire Christian tradition will be influenced. The patriarchal framework within which the church operates is transferred, without the reflexivity that good ethnography would expect, onto public theology. The William Temple Foundation produces a paper on the value of women's work for the economy. It echoes the observations made by Caring Hands and earlier research by Oxfam.
