TY - JOUR
T1 - All work and no play
T2 - Indigenous women “pulling the weight” in home life
AU - McKinley, Catherine Elizabeth
AU - Liddell, Jessica
AU - Lilly, Jennifer
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - The invisible labor of household management, including child care, housework, and financial responsibilities, is a contemporary form of historical oppression adding strain and contributing to mothers’ role overload, depression, distress, and health impairments. The purpose of this article is to use the Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence to understand the experiences of gender dynamics in home life responsibilities among two Southeastern tribes. Reconstructive analysis from a critical ethnography with 436 participants revealed the following themes: (1) moms “mostly pulling the weight”; (2) women and child care: “We do it all,” and men—“If they’re there, they’re there”; (3) financial imbalances; and (4) women’s resilience and resistance. Despite experiencing the resilience of gender egalitarianism prior to colonization, women persistently experience the effects of the historical oppression of patriarchal colonialism through being overburdened and undervalued in home life. Decolonization is needed to reestablish gender egalitarianism to redress this patriarchal oppression.
AB - The invisible labor of household management, including child care, housework, and financial responsibilities, is a contemporary form of historical oppression adding strain and contributing to mothers’ role overload, depression, distress, and health impairments. The purpose of this article is to use the Framework of Historical Oppression, Resilience, and Transcendence to understand the experiences of gender dynamics in home life responsibilities among two Southeastern tribes. Reconstructive analysis from a critical ethnography with 436 participants revealed the following themes: (1) moms “mostly pulling the weight”; (2) women and child care: “We do it all,” and men—“If they’re there, they’re there”; (3) financial imbalances; and (4) women’s resilience and resistance. Despite experiencing the resilience of gender egalitarianism prior to colonization, women persistently experience the effects of the historical oppression of patriarchal colonialism through being overburdened and undervalued in home life. Decolonization is needed to reestablish gender egalitarianism to redress this patriarchal oppression.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108995174&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1086/714551
DO - 10.1086/714551
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108995174
SN - 0037-7961
VL - 95
SP - 278
EP - 311
JO - Social Service Review
JF - Social Service Review
IS - 2
ER -