Bidayuh Housewives in a Changing World
Sarawak, Malaysia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2971863 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hew Cheng Sims, Hew Cheng Sim (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-166 |
| Publication date | 2001-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/jar.57.2.3631565 |
| OpenAlex | W2330902829 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This article is based on a larger ethnographic study of Bidayuh women, a group of minority indigenous women in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The women interviewed were first-generation wageworkers who had migrated from villages to the capital city of Kuching for work in the personal services sector. This article focuses on women who have since withdrawn from the labor market as a result of marriage and children. It discusses why the women left the workforce and asks whether it was a consequence of adopting the old Western bourgeois family ideal of male breadwinner and female housewife. The experiences of this new generation of urban housewives are also explored and juxtaposed with the experiences of women of their mothers' generation in the rural farming economy
Bourgeoisie · Capital (architecture) · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Geography · Housewife · Indigenous · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Work (physics) · Workforce · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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