Liminal states: Propertied citizenship and gendered kin work in middle-class Kolkata families

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2022-11-05 DOI:10.1177/0308275X221139158

Henrike Donner

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Abstract

This article traces the way the intersection between gender, class and family values is reorganised in relation to state policies that enable propertied citizenship through home-ownership. Focusing on ethnographic data from Kolkata, India, it discusses how women realise propertied citizenship in exchange for care work rather than through employment as developmentalist and liberal feminist discourses suggest. Here the way women’s lives are envisaged and represented through investment in high levels of educational attainment is in contrast to low levels of employment, symptomatic of what I call ‘liminal states’ – a gendered state of immaturity and dependence on kin. Home-ownership as a means of ‘empowerment’ configures the home as the economic and affective focus of gendered care work, which reproduces Berlant’s ‘cruel optimism’, whereby the desire to own a home and the practices of homemaking hamper autonomy and restrict the efficacy of agency.

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阈限状态:加尔各答中产阶级家庭的有产公民身份和性别亲属工作

这篇文章追溯了性别、阶级和家庭价值观之间的交叉点是如何与通过拥有住房实现有财产公民身份的国家政策相联系的。它以印度加尔各答的人种学数据为重点，讨论了女性如何通过护理工作而不是发展主义和自由主义女权主义话语所暗示的就业来实现有财产的公民身份。在这里，通过对高教育水平的投资来设想和代表女性生活的方式与低就业水平形成了鲜明对比，低就业水平是我所说的“临界状态”的症状——一种不成熟和依赖亲属的性别状态。拥有住房作为一种“赋权”手段，将家庭配置为性别护理工作的经济和情感重点，这再现了Berlant的“残酷乐观主义”，即拥有一个家的愿望和在家的做法阻碍了自主性，限制了代理的效力。

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