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Complementary Roles and Asymmetrical Lives

Farmers‘ Wives in a Large Farm Environment

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ID4445865
AuthorsDavid G Symes, David Symes (University of Hull), Terry Marsden (0000-0003-0503-2039, Swansea University), Terry K Marsden
Year1983
Volume23
Issue3-4
Pages229-241
Publication date1983-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9523.1983.tb00745.x
OpenAlexW1522456331
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited8

Several studies have referred to changing relationships between husband and wife in modernising agricultural communities, indicating a shift towards less segregated roles and a more symmetrical family. Comparatively little is known of the relationships in a large-scale, capitalist farming system. This paper referring to an arable farming region in eastern England demonstrates how the complementary nature of women's activities both on and off the farm have created highly asymmetrical lives for farmer and farm wife. Although the wife may be incorporated into the family firm through a legal partnership, her managerial involvement may be passive and her work progressively casualised. The farm wife is emerging from a work-oriented role on the farm into a greater participation in the expanding areas of self-help and voluntary service which characterise village life. But rural women have not yet achieved much penetration of public, political life; representation of the local community at parish, district and county levels remains largely a man's realm.RésuméPlusieurs recherches ont étudiéľimpact de la modernisation agricole sur les relations entre homme et femme: elles indiquent un changement vers une moindre séparation des rôles et vets une famille plus symétrique. Par contre, on connaît peu ?études à ce sujet dans le cadre des formes capitalistes ?agriculture (de grande dimension). Cet article concerne une région agricole de ľEst de ľAngleterre et il décrit comment la complémentarité des rôles de la femme, dans la fcrme et en dehors, tend à créer des conditions de vie très asymétriques pour ľhomme et la femme. Même si ľégalitc légale donne un statut à la femme dans ľentreprise familiale, son engagement dans la gestion peut être purement passif, et son travail marginalisé. La Fermière passe ?une condition basée sur le travail agricole à une condition detcrminee par sa participation aux associations volontaires et ?entraide du village. Mais la femme rurale n'a pas pour autant réussi sa percéc dans la vie politique ou publiquc: la représentation de la communauté au niveau de la commune, du district ou du comté, reste un privilegeé masculin.KurzfassungIn verschiedenen Untersuchungen wurden bereits die sich verändcrnden Beziehungen zwi-schen Ehegatten in der Modernisierung unterliegenden landwirtschaftlichen Gemeinden untersucht, wobei ein Wandel zu weniger getrennten Rollen und zur symmctrischen Familie dcutlich wurde. Vergleichsweise wenig ist über die Beziehungen in einer großbetrieblichcn, kapitalistischen Landwirtschaft bekannt. Dieser Beitrag über ein Ackerbaugebiet in Ostengland zeigt, wie die complementäre Art der Beschäftigung von Frauen auf dem landwirtschaftlichen Betrieb und außerhalb des Betriebes zu eincm sehr asymetrischen Leben von Landwirren und ihren Frauen geführt hat. Obwohl die Frau rechtlich partner-schaftlich in den Betrieb integriert sein mag, kann ihre Beteiligung an der Betriebslcitung eher passiv sein und ihre Mitarbeit zunehmend aus Gelegenheitsarbeitcn bestehen. Die Landfrau ist im Begriff, ihre arbeitsorientierte Rolle hin zu einer stärkeren Beteiligung im großer werdenden Bereich von dörflichen Selbsthilfeeinrichtungen und freiwilligen Hilfsdicnsten zu verändern. Aber Landfrauen haben es noch nicht erreicht, stärker in das öffentliche und politischc Leben einzudringen; die Repräsentation auf örtlicher, gemcindlicher, Kreis- und Bezirkscbene bleibt weitgehend Aufgabenbereich der Männer

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