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Volume 6 Issue 6
November-December 2024
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Contested Family: Masculinity, Sex Discrimination and Emotion
Author(s) | Victory Thapa |
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Country | Nepal |
Abstract | Conventionally, it is assumed that the family holds care, love, and cooperation within its members. On the other hand, masculinity and sex discrimination are clearly visible features within the family in Nepali society. Thus, the "role transaction" between male and female contradicts the previous school of thought. Then, what is "care" within a family? As family constitutes male and female members (the third sexes—lesbian and gay are excluded in this paper) of different generations from various roles and capacities, the paper attempts to explore the competing meaning of "care" from the family members' perspectives. I carried out five in-depth interviews from July 15 to September 5, 2014, with a modern Nepali nuclear Hindu family employing a grounded theory approach (Corbin and Strauss 2008). The family has five members: two males (the father and son) and three females (the mother and two daughters). The youngest daughter of the family attempted suicide on July 10, 2014, after a violent conflict occurred with her father. Fortunately, the incident was resolved with the help of her mother and sister and the intervention of a social worker and police. From these cases, I found individuals’ meaning formations are reflexive, the consciousness impelled to the individual self-perception that produces action, counteraction, reaction, and emotion. Interestingly, from these in-depth interviews, primarily two competing knowledge structures emerged—a male and female perspective—to view the notion of 'care'. The male group advocates that care is the fulfillment of basic material needs (food, money, education, etc.) and shelter (house). However, female members visualize "decision making", self," and "collective respect" as also inseparable components of care. Unequal opportunity structures between male and female members of the family are defined as "constraints of care" by female members. Collective and individual freedoms of females are their rights, which produce "real care" within the family. Thus, I argue that (i) "role location" is a matrix of the meaning (of care) formation, and (ii) "family care" includes both material and emotional components. |
Keywords | family, masculinity, discrimination, emotion, care |
Field | Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion |
Published In | Volume 5, Issue 4, July-August 2023 |
Published On | 2023-08-14 |
Cite This | Contested Family: Masculinity, Sex Discrimination and Emotion - Victory Thapa - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 4, July-August 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.5257 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.5257 |
Short DOI | https://doi.org/gsmnqk |
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