Disobedient Daughters? Changing Women's Roles in Rural Households in KwaZulu-Natal

Mathis, Sarah M.

doi:10.1080/03057070.2011.617930

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“…Some rural women have struggled to become urban; others have chosen the relative autonomy that rural livelihoods provide for some; others have had no option but the poverty of low‐wage and irregular casual labour. Young women in KwaZulu‐Natal often straddle both the supportive rural homesteads of their parents and urban locations where they pursue jobs, experience and schooling (Mathis ). Each of these outcomes yields different patterns of nutrition, different health risks and different kinds of access to health facilities.…”

Section: At the Centre Of The Southern African Web Of Afflictionmentioning

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Land, Labour and the Production of Affliction in Rural Southern Africa

O'Laughlin¹

2012

Journal of Agrarian Change

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Section: At the Centre Of The Southern African Web Of Afflictionmentioning

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Land, Labour and the Production of Affliction in Rural Southern Africa

O'Laughlin¹

2012

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…Individualist norms impede responsibilities to kin. Mathis (2011) found that employed young women tried to limit their financial obligations towards their parents by speaking of themselves as rights-bearing individuals, in contrast to the discourse of tradition used by older people. When employed adult children failed to make financial contributions towards their households, their elders considered them to be ‘uncaring’:Today’s children, they don’t care about their parents … You find out that you raise your children but once your children get their job, they cannot support you.…”

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“…Young women who defied patriarchal norms would be accused of being selfish, irresponsible and ‘bad’ daughters. This leads to hostility to the Child Support Grant itself, because the grant is seen to be morally and socially corrosive (Dubbeld, 2013; Hickel, 2015; Mathis, 2011; Mosoetsa, 2011).…”

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South Africa’s hybrid care regime: The changing and contested roles of individuals, families and the state after apartheid

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The post-apartheid state in South Africa inherited a care regime that historically combined liberal, social democratic and conservative features. The post-apartheid state has sought to deracialise the care regime, through extending to the African majority the privileges that hitherto had been largely confined to the white minority, and to transform it, to render it more appropriate to the needs and norms of the African majority. Deracialisation proved insufficient and transformation too limited to address inequalities in access to care. Reform also generated tensions, including between a predominant ideology that accords women and children rights as autonomous individuals, the widespread belief in kinship obligations and an enduring if less widespread conservative, patriarchal ideology. Ordinary people must navigate between the market (if they can afford it), the state and the family, balancing opportunities for independence with the claims made on and by kin. The care regime thus remains a contested hybrid.

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“…Mosoetsa (2011) found that when daughters had access to an income, many challenged their parents’ gendered expectations of unpaid labour and financial provision. Mathis (2011) reported that young women spoke of themselves as rights-bearing individuals to limit their financial obligations towards their parents. This research may point to intergenerational negotiations over caregiving.…”

Section: Contextualising Older Women’s Intergenerational Relationshipmentioning

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Conflict and negotiation in intergenerational care: Older women’s experiences of caring with the Old Age Grant in South Africa

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2019

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Social policy and welfare provision have converged with socio-economic conditions, cultural beliefs about kin support and intra-household dynamics to position older women as important financial providers in their families. This article draws on the findings of a qualitative study about intergenerational relationships of care in a large township near Cape Town. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with fourteen female Old Age Grant recipients and some of their co-resident adult children. The article focuses on the grant recipients’ experiences of giving and receiving financial support (‘financial care’) in their intergenerational relationships. It also unpacks the intra-household dynamics involved in this caregiving. Although the grant better enabled the women in the study to meet the needs of their households, beliefs about the mutual and shared responsibility for financial caregiving in families informed their expectations of financial assistance from younger kin. When their co-resident younger relatives did earn an income, negotiations around the provision of financial care ensued; generating conflict and reflecting unequal power relations between relatives. These dynamics contributed to the women’s experiences of vulnerability and their high burden of care. In this context, the article examines the state’s role in the care process and how it has contributed to the gendered and generational distribution of care work in families.

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Disobedient Daughters? Changing Women's Roles in Rural Households in KwaZulu-Natal

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

Land, Labour and the Production of Affliction in Rural Southern Africa

Land, Labour and the Production of Affliction in Rural Southern Africa

South Africa’s hybrid care regime: The changing and contested roles of individuals, families and the state after apartheid

Conflict and negotiation in intergenerational care: Older women’s experiences of caring with the Old Age Grant in South Africa

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