Haupttitel:
Relational autonomy: kinship and daughters-in-law negotiating affinity with their mothers-in-law
Autor*in:
Galam, Roderick G.
Datum der Freigabe:
2018-12-07T10:35:02Z
Abstract:
Research on mother- and daughter-in-law relationships has primarily focused on the conflict between the two. This article highlights the empowering potential of daughters-in-law of this problematic relationship by examining the struggle of Filipino seafarers’ wives to exercise agency and achieve autonomy in the context of living with their mothers-in-law. Drawing on in-depth semi-structured interviews, it analyses the women’s project for autonomy within kinship, that is, an autonomy deeply embedded in intersubjective relations through the conceptualisation of kinship as ‘cultures of relatedness’, which explicitly attends to the negative aspects of kinship. Three dimensions of their experiences are discussed: breaking their silence/talking back; becoming their husband’s designated recipient of their remittances; and having their own house. Their experiences demonstrate the importance of retaining normativity in the conceptualisation of kinship as relatedness.
Teil des Identifiers:
ISSN (print): 2046-7443
ISSN (print): 2046-7435
Freie Schlagwörter:
autonomy
mother-daughter-in-law-relation
kinship
relatedness
affinity
house
voice
male emigration
Ilocos
Philippines
DDC-Klassifikation:
301 Soziologie, Anthropologie
306 Kultur und Institutionen
Publikationstyp:
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Zeitschrift:
Families, relationships and Societies
Copyright des Verlags:
Copyright liegt beim Verlag Policy Press
Fachbereich/Einrichtung:
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
Anmerkungen:
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in Families, Relationships and Societies. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Galam, Roderick: Relational autonomy: kinship and daughters-in-law negotiating affinity with their mothers-in-law. In: Families, Relationships and Societies, 2017, 6(3) is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/204674316X14534751747450.
This author's post-acceptance version is not to be cited.