Remaking Masculinities: Identity, Power, and Gender Dynamics in Families with Migrant Wives and Househusbands

by Alicia Pingol

Paperback

Published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Andy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Theoretically, this book is not so strong. But what it is good at is the empirical material. In the gendered migration literature, men are rarely the subject of inquiry, and they are typically assumed as irresponsible "patriarchs" when women become the breadwinners. In this study, Pingol complicates this view by demonstrating how men reconstitute their contested identities at home and in the community. Far from being "failed patriarchs," the men Pingol studies increasingly took part in childcare, housework, and other activities traditionally shunned by men as a result of female migration. A welcome addition to the feminist migration literature.