SWMS 210mgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Patrilocal Residence, Patrilineality, Endogamy
Document Summary
Homemaker breadwinner binary in the middle- and upper-class: women are restricted to the home. Being in the home is considered oppressive. But for working-class women, working outside the home seems oppressive. Bargains: negotiating the patriarchal structure to maximize benefits, agency. Patriarchy is not a monolith - patriarchy takes different forms in different contexts. Women develop different survival strategies, patriarchal bargains, in different contexts. Trading material security, social status, or safety for personal freedoms. Polygyny: having more than one wife at the time. Govt policies alleviate poverty by investing in men"s agriculture. However, women traditionally do most of the rice cultivation work. Women deserted husbands when they did not control access to their own plots, were not given resources, refused to work. When women could, they moved away from agricultural labor to making cottage products (food products made in the home) to sell in the market. Socially acceptable way for women to work.
