"The Myth of Being "Like a Daughter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4501352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grace Esther Young (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 365-380 |
| Publication date | 1987-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x8701400305 |
| OpenAlex | W2006430947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 5 |
A small group of dedicated women is organizing domestic servants in Lima, Peru. Like the maids they organize, these women migrated at a young age from their rural, poor families to work in moderate and upper income, urban families. Their efforts to organize the sector are frustrated both by structural aspects of the relationship of the domestic servant to her family, as well as by the pervasive ideology of the family sphere, which is sanctioned through collective institutions. The journey young women make from the rural to urban context is facilitated through the medium of the family as a socioeconomic and ideological form. The family has seemingly universal characteristics as well as aspects that are specific to particular class and cultural contexts. I shall argue that the idiom of the family as inclusive, just, and as a natural age-based division of labor and power, serves to structure a relationship of inequality-indeed, exploitation-one powerfully legitimized by the church and the state. But, the metaphor of the family is itself contradictory at least in its application to the conditions of domestic service, something that emerges in the experience of the domestic servants themselves. Efforts to organize the domestic servant sector began in the early 1970s, during a period of sustained economic growth and stability of the Peruvian economy. The macroeconomic changes occurring in Peru serve to restructure the nature of the domestic domain, thereby changing the character of the domestic servant's position. As these changes occur, creative strategies for organizing the sector are demanded
Context (archaeology) · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Ideology · Metaphor · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Restructuring · Servant · Sociology · Working class · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law
El lenguaje de la familia
Echarnos la mano. Experiencias organizativas en torno a la sostenibilidad de la vida de mujeres trabajadoras del hogar migrantes mazatecas en colonias populares de Puebla (México)
"Hasta que el cuerpo aguante". Precariedad laboral y envejecimiento de trabajadoras domésticas en México
Regulating the Unregulated
A t the I ntersection of H ome and W ork
Revisiting women’s migration and care labor
Contestation and constraint
Invisible labour
Class and Status Mobility of Filipina Local and Transnational Domestic Workers
I Always Wanted to Go Abroad. And I Like Children’
La Sociedad de Naciones y el tratamiento del sistema mui tsai
Intimacy Double Bind
Negotiating change
Painted Faces
To Serve the Nation
Making Sense of Violence Through Women’s Experiences
The Gender Institute, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, England
Ethnicity, Patriarchy, and Incorporation into the Nation
Historias del servicio doméstico
In the Absence of Men? Gender, Migration and Domestic Labour in the Southern Ecuadorean Andes
Who Is (Not) a Servant, Anyway? Domestic servants and service in early colonial India
Domestic Service in a Global Perspective
Paid Domestic Work
Reciprocity and intimate capital in household work
The Descendant Bargain
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,69 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2026 (37) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |