Absent men: paid domestic work, sexual exploitation and male domination in the family in the USA

Weiss, Catherine

doi:10.1080/14616742.2017.1293941

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“…Like other family members, particularly wives but also children, they are thus subject to appropriation by male household heads (Delphy and Leonard, 1992). This appropriation involves not only labour, but is also sexual (Weiss, 2017). Thus, prostitution and domestic service can both be understood as forms of appropriation of women.…”

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“…5 Tabet thus demonstrates that Guillaumin’s notion of private and collective forms of appropriation are not so much contradictory as continuous (see also Juteau and Laurin, 1989). Once a sexual component to domestic service has been recognised (Weiss, 2017), we can argue that domestic servants provide to men a group of services more limited than that provided by wives, but more extensive than that provided in prostitution. Domestic service can therefore be located on Tabet’s continuum of sexual–economic exchange.…”

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Domestic service and prostitution: Empirical and theoretical connections

Orian Weiss

2024

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Various activities are systematically imposed on women in both paid and unpaid forms, generally involving care for others, sexual activity, or a combination of both. These activities have typically been studied separately, but these analytical divisions are increasingly being questioned. This article contributes to this debate by exploring empirical and theoretical connections two of the most prominent of these activities, prostitution and domestic service. Through a survey of the empirical literature on migration for domestic service, the article identifies four themes that suggest why some migrant women move between domestic service and prostitution: pre-existing structural constraints, migration conditions, working conditions, and migration policies. Subsequently, drawing on the work of French materialist feminists Colette Guillaumin and Paola Tabet and political theorist Carole Pateman, it sketches the outline of a theoretical account of the relationship between these two activities.

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Domestic service and prostitution: Empirical and theoretical connections

Orian Weiss

2024

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…One respondent claimed that her sense of guilt had led her to overpay the DW she hired. Yet evidence suggests that DW in the US remain low paid, undervalued and overrepresented by women of colour and immigrants (Savas, 2010) as well as subject to sexual exploitation (Weiss, 2017).…”

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Middle-class Women and Domestic Work in India and the United States: Caste, Race and Patriarchy

Nair

Hofman

2022

Sociological Bulletin

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This study compares middle-class women’s experience of domestic work in India and the United States(US), highlighting similarities in how domestic work is organised in its paid and unpaid forms across both sites. The focus on middle-class women’s experience as unpaid workers and employers of domestic workers provides an insight into how the social and economic values of domestic work are determined. Despite social and political differences, the political economies of India and the US and interlocking systems of oppression including patriarchy, neoliberalism, caste and race have produced similarities in the undervaluation of domestic work at both sites.

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“…Most often, these outsourced services are also performed by women but, unlike the married women, they are getting compensated for their services, albeit at an exploitive rate of pay (Human Rights Watch, 2006). Based on her research, Weiss (2017) argues that the exploitation of domestic workers results from their position in the contemporary patriarchal family in which male household heads appropriate the labor of domestic workers, as well as of wives and children.…”

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Civil disobedience in the domestic sphere: The case of the Hetero‐gay family

Erera

Segal‐Engelchin

Weatherley

2021

J of Family Theo & Revie

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This article considers women who establish diverse families, focusing on the hetero‐gay family as a point of departure. These women challenge patriarchal imperatives through implicit acts of civil disobedience, creating an alternative to the constraints of the traditional two‐parent different‐sex family. We show how the concept of civil disobedience, conventionally restricted to the field of law and public policy, applies as well to the domestic sphere of family life, a potential arena of contention and activism. This case example illustrates the utility of taking into account the reciprocal influences of families and the larger social and political context in which they are imbedded.

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Absent men: paid domestic work, sexual exploitation and male domination in the family in the USA

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

Domestic service and prostitution: Empirical and theoretical connections

Domestic service and prostitution: Empirical and theoretical connections

Middle-class Women and Domestic Work in India and the United States: Caste, Race and Patriarchy

Civil disobedience in the domestic sphere: The case of the Hetero‐gay family

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