TY - JOUR
T1 - On her shoulders
T2 - Unpacking domestic work, neo-kinship and social authoritarianism in Peru
AU - Pérez, Leda M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Poorly paid–sometimes unpaid–domestic workers represent one of the few viable options for household and care support in Peru, where the state is weak in its provision of services and protection. I argue that social hierarchies established through the coloniality of power and the coloniality of gender add a layer of complexity to workers´ lived intersectionality of gender, indigeneity, rurality and migration status. It ends up positioning them as inferior in relation to their employers and co-citizens, a situation that is tantamount to social authoritarianism.
AB - Poorly paid–sometimes unpaid–domestic workers represent one of the few viable options for household and care support in Peru, where the state is weak in its provision of services and protection. I argue that social hierarchies established through the coloniality of power and the coloniality of gender add a layer of complexity to workers´ lived intersectionality of gender, indigeneity, rurality and migration status. It ends up positioning them as inferior in relation to their employers and co-citizens, a situation that is tantamount to social authoritarianism.
KW - Care work
KW - coloniality
KW - gender and social authoritarianism
KW - power
KW - Care work
KW - coloniality
KW - gender and social authoritarianism
KW - power
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U2 - 10.1080/0966369X.2019.1708273
DO - 10.1080/0966369X.2019.1708273
M3 - Article in a journal
SN - 0966-369X
VL - 28
JO - Gender, Place and Culture
JF - Gender, Place and Culture
IS - 1
ER -
