‘Doing Gendered Age’: older mothers and migrant daughters negotiating care work in rural Lao PDR and Thailand

Huijsmans, Roy

doi:10.1080/01436597.2013.851952

Cited by 29 publications

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“…There has been a tendency to analyse child care responsibilities, as with other of women's reproductive roles, largely in terms of their burden of labour and their constraint on women's ability to earn independent incomes. This study supports some of the new critical work on 'care', which recognises that giving care can be intrinsically satisfying and can be a way of gaining or wielding power (Robson 2006;Huijsmans 2013;Hanrahan, 2015). These findings question the vision of women's empowerment in development policy, which emphasises women's economic independence.…”

Section: Older Women's Interpretations and Negotiationssupporting

confidence: 67%

Women bargaining with patriarchy in coastal Kenya: contradictions, creative agency and food provisioning

Kawarazuka

Locke

Seeley

2019

Gender, Place & Culture

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Gender analysts have long recognised that challenging existing patriarchal structures involves risks for women, who may lose both long-term support and protection from kin. However, understanding the specific ways in which they 'bargain with patriarchy' in particular contexts is relatively poorly understood. We focus on a Mijikenda fishing community in coastal Kenya to explore contradictions in gendered power relations and how women deploy these to reinterpret gendered practices without directly challenging local patriarchal structures. We argue that a more complex understanding of women's creative agency can reveal both the value to women of culturally-specific gendered roles and responsibilities and the importance of subtle changes that they are able to negotiate in these. With reference to food provisioning, the analysis contributes to more nuanced understandings of gendered household food security and women's creative approaches to maintaining long-term security in their lives.

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Section: Older Women's Interpretations and Negotiationssupporting

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Women bargaining with patriarchy in coastal Kenya: contradictions, creative agency and food provisioning

Kawarazuka

Locke

Seeley

2019

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…Yet, social locations of disadvantage related to racialization and low income, coupled with societal assumptions that women are “natural” caregivers, make it difficult for many grandmothers to opt out of family care work or to pursue their own interests. In turn, responsibilities for reproductive labor can solidify grandmothers' “elderly” status because it limits their opportunities to participate in other economic or social activities (Huijsmans, ).…”

Section: Old Age and Family Care Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…"elderly" status because it limits their opportunities to participate in other economic or social activities (Huijsmans, 2013).…”

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“Old age” as a social location: Theorizing institutional processes, cultural expectations, and interactional practices

Barken

2019

Sociology Compass

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The graying of societies and growing inequality call for increased attention to age relations and their implications for power, status, and constraint in late life. In this paper, I argue old age is a distinct—and devalued—social location that exists amid intersecting relations of inequality. Using an integrative approach, I synthesize selected sociological research on the institutional processes, cultural expectations, and interactional practices underlying the social construction of old age. I then review research in the areas of family care work and employment to illustrate some empirical contexts where age relations intersect with gender, class, race, and ethnicity to structure divergent opportunities and constraints among older people. This paper maps out significant theoretical and substantive signposts in the sociology of old age to build connections across levels of analysis, and to provide a nuanced, comprehensive approach to patterned inequalities in late life.

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“…First, such campaigns typically reproduce dominant conceptualisations of time and space by portraying 'certain phases of life (time, such as marriageable age) and certain places (space, such as school of family) as normal', without marking their deep heteronormativity (Jauhola, 2011, no page numbers indicated). Second, age is always accomplished within other evolving social units, most notably the household (Huijsmans, 2012(Huijsmans, , 2013. Third, these micro-rhythms of human and household development interact with trajectories of socioeconomic development.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…I am unsure. (Molland, 2012, p. 208) Laz (1998, p. 86) argues that age is far more social than chronological because 'it is constituted in interaction and gains its meaning in interaction in the context of larger social forces' (see also Huijsmans, 2013). This does not imply denying the importance of chronological age, but requires us to ask how it is 'made important in particular social and historical context and in interaction' (Laz, 1998, p. 92, original emphasis).…”

Section: Relationality and Agementioning

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Theorising Age and Generation in Development: A Relational Approach

Huijsmans

George²,

Gigengack

et al. 2014

Eur J Dev Res

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This introduction outlines the analytical approach informing the articles presented in this special issue. The project of 'generationing' development involves re-thinking development as distinctly generational in its dynamics. For this, we adopt a relational approach to the study of young people in development, which overcomes the limitations inherent to common categorising approaches. Concepts of age and generation are employed to conceptualise young people as social actors and life phases such as childhood and youth in relational terms. Acknowledging the centrality of young people in social reproduction puts them at the heart of development studies and leads the articles comprising this special issue to explore how young people's agency shapes and is shaped by the changing terms of social reproduction brought about by development.Cette introduction trace les grandes lignes de l'approche analytique sur laquelle s'appuient les articles présentés dans ce numéro spécial. Le projet de développement « générationnant » implique de repenser le développement comme une dynamique clairement générationnelle. Pour cela, nous appliquons une approche relationnelle à l'analyse des jeunes dans le développement, qui permet de surmonter les limites inhérentes aux approches classificatrices communes. Les concepts d'âge et de génération sont mobilisés pour envisager les jeunes comme des acteurs sociaux, et les phases de vie telles que l'enfance et la jeunesse dans une perspective relationnelle. La prise en compte du rôle central des jeunes dans la reproduction sociale les met au coeur des études de développement et conduit les articles présentés dans ce numéro spécial à examiner en quoi la capacité d'action (agency) des jeunes influence et est influencée par les transformations des conditions de reproduction sociale découlant du développement.

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‘Doing Gendered Age’: older mothers and migrant daughters negotiating care work in rural Lao PDR and Thailand

Cited by 29 publications

References 12 publications

Women bargaining with patriarchy in coastal Kenya: contradictions, creative agency and food provisioning

Women bargaining with patriarchy in coastal Kenya: contradictions, creative agency and food provisioning

“Old age” as a social location: Theorizing institutional processes, cultural expectations, and interactional practices

Theorising Age and Generation in Development: A Relational Approach

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