Empowered Homeowners, Responsible Mothers
Promises and Pitfalls of Maternalist Housing Provision in Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida Program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12426337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carter M Koppelman (0000-0002-1455-4691, Florida Atlantic University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1449-1473 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sp/jxac026 |
| OpenAlex | W4291984203 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
Brazil’s Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV) program was touted as a “pro-female” policy to promote women’s autonomy and empowerment through subsidized homeownership. However, its design and discourse constructed motherhood as the primary basis of women’s inclusion. This article examines the gendered effects of a maternalist housing program through ethnographic research in São Paulo, looking at both movement organizations using MCMV to provide housing for members, and everyday life among residents in an MCMV-subsidized housing complex. It finds that while many women felt empowered by inclusion in MCMV, the program also produced gendered exclusions and reinforced unequal gendered burdens. First, it selectively prioritized low-income mothers while excluding other groups of women as undeserving “single people.” Second, it primed beneficiaries to view state-subsidized housing as conditioned upon their responsibility for home and family, expanding maternal obligations to include the financial management of homeownership without easing gendered burdens of care
Autonomy · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Ethnography · Inclusion (mineral · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Subsidy · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Urban Planning and Governance · Gender Studies
Women, human settlements, and housing
The Many Hands of the State
Empowering Women
On Housing, Inheritance and Succession Among Pioneer Squatters and Self Builders
The ‘Feminisation of Poverty’ and the ‘Feminisation’ of Anti-Poverty Programmes
The inclusion and access of social housing movements to Minha Casa Minha Vida
Incomplete Universalization? Peruvian Social Policy Reform, Universalism, and Gendered Outcomes
Risks and Opportunities in Gender Gaps to Access Shelter
Mothers at the Service of the New Poverty Agenda
Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship
Modest Expectations
Gender Inequality in Asset Ownership in Latin America
Changing Patterns of Kinship
Gendering the Urban Social Movement and Public Housing Policy in São Paulo
Autoconstruction in Working-Class Brazil
Shaping the Singapore family, producing the state and society
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |