To Honor and Obey: Efficiency, Inequality, and Patriarchal Property Rights

Braunstein, Elissa; Folbre, Nancy

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“…In addition, the existence of traditional rights, social norms, access to property rights, as well as access to social security systems affects the gender-specific bargaining power within a household. More recent approaches consider the fallback position of the individual member of the household in cases of noncooperation (Agarwal 1997, Braunstein/Folbre 2001.…”

Section: Traditional Theories On Remittances and Their Limitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, Transnational Networks and Remittances: Evidence from Germany

Holst

Schäfer²,

Schrooten³

2010

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. Terms of use: Documents inThe decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly. AbstractRemittances from Germany are substantial. Cross-border transfers to family and friendship networks outside Germany are not only made by foreigners. Many naturalized migrants send money home as well. Here, we focus on transnational networks and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our findings show, above all, that foreign women remit less money than foreign men. Using information on the social network in the home country we find, first, that the social network abroad explains part of gender differences in remittance behavior. Second, employing gender interaction terms for the social network effects suggests that remittance behavior is affected by traditional gender roles. Third, the migrant's social integration in the destination country matters. Remittance decisions of naturalized migrants do not show the aforementioned gender effect. (138 words) JEL-classification: F24, J16, D13

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Section: Traditional Theories On Remittances and Their Limitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender, Transnational Networks and Remittances: Evidence from Germany

Holst

Schäfer²,

Schrooten³

2010

SSRN Journal

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“…An exam ination of both secular and religious, Muslim and non-Muslim countries in fact suggests that male-biased legal structures persist in many contexts. Elissa Braunstein and Nancy Folbre (2001), for example, explore the institutionalization o f what they label as patriarchal property rights in the context of the US and UK historically.9 Family law in Turkey, while based mostly on secular sources, discriminates against womenn o t unlike legal systems that claim to be built on Christian, Muslim Countries also differ in terms of their globalization experiences, including the m anner, degree to which, and when they were affected by colonialism, the Cold War, structural adjustm ent, and neoliberalism , all of which have shaped the gendering o f their economies. Given their differing political histories and resource bases, today Muslims live in countries that fall along a broad spectrum in term s o f national incom e levels, poverty rates, and social safety nets.…”

Section: F E M In Is T a P P R O A C H E S And O R Ie N T A L Is Mmentioning

confidence: 98%

Gender and Economics in Muslim Communities: A Critical Feminist and Postcolonial Analysis

Kongar¹,

Olmsted²,

Shehabuddin³

2014

Feminist Economics

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A B ST R A C TThis contribution seeks to delineate the broad contours of a transnational, anti imperial feminist perspective on gender and economics in Muslim communities by bringing together feminist analyses of Orientalist tropes, development discourses and policies, and macro-and microeconomic trends. The goal is to facilitate conversations among scholars who have tended to work within their respective disciplinary and methodological silos despite shared interests. This approach pays special attention to intersectionality, historicity, and structural constraints by focusing on the diversity of the experiences of women and men by religion, location, citizenship, class, age, ethnicity, race, marital status, and other factors. It recognizes the complex relationships between the economic, political, cultural, and religious spheres and the role of local and transnational histories, economies, and politics in shaping people's lives. Finally, it emphasizes that openness to different methodological approaches can shed clearer light on the question of how various structural factors shape women's economic realities.

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“…And in On Liberty Mill disparages men who fail to support their wives and children economically (1991b, 108). But as Braunstein and Folbre (2001) note, "the concept of 'support' was never explicitly defined and was legally construed as providing only a bare minimum of subsistence" (33). But he does not suggest husbands' legal duty to bequeath to wives, and he never discusses women's legal entitlement to such support either during marriage or after death or divorce.…”

Section: Mill On Women's Workmentioning

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Mill, Political Economy, and Women's Work

Hirschmann

2008

Am Polit Sci Rev

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T he sexual division of labor and the social and economic value of women's work in the home has been a problem that scholars have struggled with at least since the advent of the "second wave" women's movement, but it has never entered into the primary discourses of political science. This paper argues that John Stuart Mill's Political Economy provides innovative and useful arguments that address this thorny problem. Productive labor is essential to Mill's conception of property, and property was vital to women's independence in Mill's view. Yet since Mill thought most women would choose the "career" of wife and mother rather than working for wages, then granting that work productive status would provide a radical and inventive foundation for women's equality. Mill, however, is ambiguous about the productive status of domestic labor, and is thereby representative of a crucial failure in political economic thought, as well as in egalitarian liberal thought on gender. But because Mill at the same time develops a conception of production that goes well beyond the narrow limits offered by other prominent political economists, he offers contemporary political scientists and theorists a way to rethink the relationship of reproductive to productive labor, the requirements for gender equality, and the accepted categories of political economy.

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To Honor and Obey: Efficiency, Inequality, and Patriarchal Property Rights

Cited by 61 publications

References 21 publications

Gender, Transnational Networks and Remittances: Evidence from Germany

Gender, Transnational Networks and Remittances: Evidence from Germany

Gender and Economics in Muslim Communities: A Critical Feminist and Postcolonial Analysis

Mill, Political Economy, and Women's Work

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