dc.contributor.author
Galam, Roderick G.
dc.date.accessioned
2018-12-07T10:35:02Z
dc.date.available
2018-12-07T10:35:02Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/23509
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-1295
dc.description.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.
en
dc.format.extent
30 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/refubium/rechtliches/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject
mother-daughter-in-law-relation
en
dc.subject
male emigration
en
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::301 Soziologie, Anthropologie
dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::306 Kultur und Institutionen
dc.title
Relational autonomy: kinship and daughters-in-law negotiating affinity with their mothers-in-law
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1332/204674316X14534751747450
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Families, relationships and Societies
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
3
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
357
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
373
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
6
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1332/204674316X14534751747450
dcterms.rightsHolder.note
Copyright liegt beim Verlag Policy Press
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https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/rights-and-permissions
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https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/self-archiving
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
refubium.note.author
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.
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no
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open access
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2046-7443
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2046-7435