Masculinity, Male Domestic Authority and Female Labour Participation in South India

Vera‐Sanso, Penny

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“…Studies of work and masculinity have underlined the need to transcend exclusive characterizations of men's labour in terms of physical strength, and to focus on how men's work experiences are contextualized and continually redefined within a wider network of relations (De Neve 2004;Jackson 2001). A relational approach to gendered experiences of work enhances understanding of men's working lives and provides insights into their vulnerabilities with respect to marital and wider social relations (Jackson 1999;Vera-Sanso 2001). Here, conjugality emerges as central not only to men's transnational mobility but also to their work experiences.…”

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Italy is not a good place for men: narratives of places, marriage and masculinity among Malayali migrants

Gallo

2006

Global Networks

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Immigration from South Asia to Italy is a recent phenomenon and novel in that the pioneer migrants are often married or single women rather than men. In this article I explore the relationship between a ‘feminization of migration’ and the construction of masculine identities among Malayali migrants from Kerala, South India, who experience migration directly or indirectly through marriages with Malayali women living and working in Rome. The interest in focusing on the relation between women's pioneer role as migrants and their husbands' experiences of migration is to show how men's identity is represented through their conjugal bond with migrant women working in the domestic sector and to understand how masculinity is constructed and contested within and with reference to different places.

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Italy is not a good place for men: narratives of places, marriage and masculinity among Malayali migrants

Gallo

2006

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“…In some cases they attempt to stop their wives from working, while in other cases they seek to profit from them (Meeker and Meekers 1997:51;Seur 1992;Tripp 1997:114). In bestcase scenarios men wax nostalgic about a patriarchal past (Cornwall 2001), while in worst case scenarios they lash out through wife abuse, alcoholism, abandonment, sexual promiscuity, and generalized violence (Silberschmidt 1999(Silberschmidt , 2001Tuzin 1997;Vera-Sanso 2001). Tuzin (1997) eloquently describes how Ilaheta Arapesh men from Papua New Guinea developed a dislocated sense of masculinity after their renunciation of their men's cult in a context of millenarian Christianity.…”

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Wolof Women, Economic Liberalization, and the Crisis of Masculinity in Rural Senegal

Perry¹

2005

Ethnology

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“…As is well known, significant social status comes through marriage in South Asia (Abraham, 2004;Vera-Sanso, 2000). But while men felt entitled to enact forms of masculine domination in their marriages, by expecting unconditional support and obedience from their wives, they could not expect the same from their lovers as these relationships were not socially sanctioned.…”

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Intervening in masculinity: work, relationships and violence among the intimate partners of female sex workers in South India

Huynh

Khan

Nair

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Although health researchers have begun to examine the forms of violence and power dynamics that play out in the intimate relationships of female sex workers (FSWs) in India, this knowledge has tended to focus on the perspectives of women, leaving men's motivations and attitudes relatively unexamined. This paper examines the contours of masculinity and gender norms from the perspective of the intimate partners of FSWs. Based on six months of ethnographic research in Northern Karnataka, the study employed two focus group discussions (FGDs) with Devadasi FSWs (N = 17), as well as four FGDs (N = 34) and 30 in-depth interviews with their intimate partners. Given the precarious labour conditions in this region, tensions developed in the participants' relationships with FSWs, as these men were unable to meet local ideals of manhood. Violence became a way that men attempted to re-secure a sense of control in their relationships with women, and to fulfil fantasies of male power. We recommend that programs engaging men not only address intimate partner violence but also attend to the social and structural realities surrounding these men's daily lived experiences.

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Masculinity, Male Domestic Authority and Female Labour Participation in South India

Cited by 16 publications

References 16 publications

Italy is not a good place for men: narratives of places, marriage and masculinity among Malayali migrants

Italy is not a good place for men: narratives of places, marriage and masculinity among Malayali migrants

Wolof Women, Economic Liberalization, and the Crisis of Masculinity in Rural Senegal

Intervening in masculinity: work, relationships and violence among the intimate partners of female sex workers in South India

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