‘Doing it with men’: feminist research practice and patriarchal inheritance practices in Welsh family farming

Price, Linda L.

doi:10.1080/09663690903522438

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“…For example, Sachs () demonstrated that women are marginalized from decision making on family farms, and their work is largely undervalued and marginalized by male farmers. More recent studies confirm the persistence of this gendered division of labor: women are relegated to indoor work (Peter et al ), confined to reproductive roles (Angeles and Hill ), and perceived as “helpers” while men are recognized as “farmers” who perform outdoor work (Liepins ; Price ; Price and Evans ).…”

Section: Rural Gender Relationsmentioning

confidence: 90%

“If You Talk Badly about Drilling, You're a Pariah”: Challenging a Capitalist Patriarchy in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Region

Filteau

2016

Rural Sociology

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Research on energy development is largely gender neutral, creating a need to illuminate how gender structures life in contemporary energy boomtowns. This study demonstrates how gender and the local economy are intertwined to perpetuate a capitalist patriarchy, which structures life for residents in these communities. The purpose of this article is to show that this economic-gender structure creates tensions between those men and women whose gender performances reinforce hegemony and those who perform gender in direct opposition to resource extraction. I argue that men and women unconstrained by the capitalist patriarchy are better able to challenge its dominance than residents employed in the local economy. I use qualitative interviews (N 5 39) with community residents and observations of community events in northeastern Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region as the primary methods of data collection. This study complements previous research by demonstrating the relationship between masculinity and femininity, showing the variability of gender in natural-resource-based settings and defining the hierarchal relationship among masculinities and femininities during periods of rapid energy development.* I would like to thank Dr. Stephen G. Sapp, reviewer number 2 for Rural Sociology, and the other blind reviewers for their insightful comments on this manuscript.

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Section: Rural Gender Relationsmentioning

confidence: 90%

“If You Talk Badly about Drilling, You're a Pariah”: Challenging a Capitalist Patriarchy in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Region

Filteau

2016

Rural Sociology

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“…They go on to argue that the transition into retirement may be more challenging for those who define themselves closely in relation to their occupation. Again, the existing work from cultural rural studies is informative here, pointing to gender differences at the intersections of physical and social insideness and illustrating how such socialisation, on family farms, occurs both on the farm and within the farming neighbourhood (Price 2010). In discussing the geographies of such socialisation in family farming, Price and Evans (2009) use the term 'spatial containment' (after Hanson and Pratt 1995) to articulate the way that work and wider community involvement are often spatially restricted in order that farming men and women are able to complete their daily tasks and routines on the farm.…”

Section: Retirement Place and Insidenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Moving on’? Exploring the geographies of retirement adjustment amongst farming couples

Riley

2012

Social & Cultural Geography

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Retirement is a life transition that has been relatively underexplored by geographers. In particular, mirroring other areas of academic and policy research, studies on retirement transitions and post-retirement experiences have been relatively sparse. Drawing on case studies from research in Hampshire and West Sussex (UK), this paper considers the challenges and issues surrounding the occupational cessation and retirement relocation of former farming couples. Utilising in-depth interviews, the paper explores how work-life histories may serve to intricately shape the geographies of retirement. It is seen that whilst family farming provided a shared occupation for couples, the respective gender(ed) roles and associated positionings in relation to farming served to differentially shape respective partner's experiences of, and adjustment to, retirement. In focusing on post-retirement experiences, the paper advocates a more temporally relational understanding of the geographies of older age which recognises how past places and identities are drawn upon in developing a sense of physical, social and autobiographical insideness in retirement spaces.

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“…Across the developed world daughters have been shown to learn, predominantly, to be supporters of farming men as they move through the life‐cycle of ‘farmer's son’, ‘boss farmer’ and ‘retired farmer’ (see Heather et al . 2005; Price 2010a and Scott 1996 for Canadian, UK and US insights).…”

Section: Conceptualising Patrilineal Family Farmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the experiences of such individuals are also nested within the micro, gendered emotional geographies of the farm. Ideas of hereditary belonging and ‘keeping the name on the land’, therefore, are clearly important to farm men and supported by the majority of women (Price 2010a). Despite changes in inheritance laws in countries such as Norway, women's compliance with patrilineal inheritance patterns is demonstrated as it is still predominantly men who inherit, own and retain decision‐making on family farms (Almas and Haugen 1991).…”

Section: Conceptualising Patrilineal Family Farmingmentioning

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The Emergence of Rural Support Organisations in the UK and Canada: Providing Support for Patrilineal Family Farming

Price¹

2012

Sociologia Ruralis

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A certain type of rural support has emerged since agricultural restructuring of the 1980s. The article draws on research from the UK and Canada to suggest that support in both countries is derived from a patrilineal culture that still dominates family farming in both countries. Such a way of life, it is argued, involves the majority of farming men and women across generations working increasingly hard to ensure farm survival in order to facilitate an overall pattern of farm succession via the male or 'patrilineal' line. The article begins by providing a conceptualisation of patrilineal family farming drawing on insights from gender-informed work on farming identities, political-economy approaches from agricultural geography and the cultural turn in rural studies. This section will provide theoretical direction for discussion of the research findings. Here the article presents a discussion of the context to and typologies of organisations that emerged and five key findings derived from research conducted with members of the organisations in the UK and Canada. This assists in developing the argument that the emergent organisations are responding to and supporting this way of life and highlights some of the potential implications of doing so. The article has two aims. Firstly, it suggests that family farming in the UK and Canada continues to be predominantly structured by a way of life transmitted across generations which has the overall prerequisite of maintaining farm survival to enable patrilineal succession. Secondly, it suggests that a particular type of support for farming families emerged as a response to perceived threats to this way of life and provides evidence of its enduring nature.

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‘Doing it with men’: feminist research practice and patriarchal inheritance practices in Welsh family farming

Cited by 26 publications

References 51 publications

“If You Talk Badly about Drilling, You're a Pariah”: Challenging a Capitalist Patriarchy in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Region

“If You Talk Badly about Drilling, You're a Pariah”: Challenging a Capitalist Patriarchy in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Region

‘Moving on’? Exploring the geographies of retirement adjustment amongst farming couples

The Emergence of Rural Support Organisations in the UK and Canada: Providing Support for Patrilineal Family Farming

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