Bidayuh Housewives in a Changing World: Sarawak, Malaysia

Autor:	Hew Cheng Sim
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Housewife business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Gender studies Indigenous Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Work (electrical) State (polity) Agriculture Anthropology Ethnography Workforce Bourgeoisie Sociology business media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Anthropological Research. 57:151-166
ISSN:	2153-3806 0091-7710
DOI:	10.1086/jar.57.2.3631565
Popis:	This article is based on a larger ethnographic study of Bidayuh women, a group of minority indigenous women in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The women interviewed were first-generation wageworkers who had migrated from villages to the capital city of Kuching for work in the personal services sector. This article focuses on women who have since withdrawn from the labor market as a result of marriage and children. It discusses why the women left the workforce and asks whether it was a consequence of adopting the old Western bourgeois family ideal of male breadwinner and female housewife. The experiences of this new generation of urban housewives are also explored and juxtaposed with the experiences of women of their mothers' generation in the rural farming economy.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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