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Renegotiating the Marital Contract: Intrahousehold Patterns of Money Allocation and Women’s Subordination Among Domestic Outworkers in Mexico City

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Renegotiating the Marital Contract: Intrahousehold Patterns of Money Allocation and Women’s Subordination Among Domestic Outworkers in Mexico City
Author(s)Roldan, Martha
AbstractEconomic theory treats the household as a unit, subsuming the interests of its members into one decision process in which the household head allocates resources altruistically for the benefit of all. In contrast, feminist theory treats the household as a site of differing, often conflicting, interests with an imbalance of power between men and women. For the research summarized here fifty-three married women, a subsample of a study of women who do industrial piecework in their homes in Mexico City, were interviewed in detail about their roles as earners and as wives and mothers. Where women were able to contribute a significant share of the household’s income, their ability to renegotiate their position in the family improved.
Pages229-247
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SourceHome Divided: Women and Income in the Third World
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PubDate1988
ISBN_ISSN804714851


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