By Lake Lui
In chinese language societies the place either “money” and “gender” confer strength, can a woman’s financial luck relative to her husband’s lead to a extra equivalent department of loved ones hard work? Lui’s qualitative examine of “status-reversed” Hong Kong households, in which better halves earn greater than their husbands, examines how re-negotiate loved ones exertions in ways in which perpetuate male dominance in the relations even if the conventional gender expectation that “men rule open air, girls rule within” (nanzhuwai, nuzhunei) is challenged. Going past the dyadic negotiation of family exertions, this significant examine additionally explores the function of “third parties,” particularly the undefined’ young ones and oldsters, who actively motivate to comply to conventional gender norms, thereby reproducing an unequal department of family exertions. established upon the reports of households with stay-at-home dads, Lui additional identifies a brand new mechanism of deconstructing gender, through which concertedly build new norms of "work" and "gender" that they preserve via day-by-day interactions to slot their ordinary relative gains. consequently, there are sparks of desire that both men and girls may be liberated from a collection of conventional social norms. Re-negotiating Gender: family department of work whilst She Earns greater than He Does is key examining within the fields of relations and gender experiences, sociology, psychology, and East Asian studies.
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