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There is a gap in research on families in the Global South and those that address the issue with a gendered and critical perspective. Considering the Global South and its articulations of power and resistance, this handbook presents chapters on the family in the Global South, acknowledging gender differences and their impact on individuals and societies in those nations and cultures.
Exploring the complex intersection among three significant social dynamics - families, the forces of societal transformation, and gender-related matters within the framework of the Global South and acknowledging the ongoing debate surrounding the Global South concept - the chapters illuminate and critically examine some of the debated matters pertaining to shifts in family dynamics from a gendered perspective. Demonstrating that examining changes in living arrangements and family dynamics through a gendered lens is indispensable not only to understand the ongoing socio-cultural processes in the Global South but also to develop social policies and service delivery practices, authors present case studies from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. To what extent do structural and cultural contexts influence gendered family dynamics and living arrangements in various societies of the Global South? In diverse societies of the Global South, how do individuals from intersectional backgrounds navigate the challenges posed by economic and social instabilities? What role does the family play in regulating these transformations?
Compelling reading for students, researchers and policymakers from various disciplines, chapters address a rich diversity of the issues relating to the family, social change and gender relations with a critical focus on the countries/cultures/communities that have been significantly underrepresented in the literature.
Contents
Foreword: Southern Voices of Change and Their Formidable Challenges; Göran Therborn
Introduction: The Family as a Gendered Site of Continuity and Change; Nawal H. Ammar and Aylin Akpınar
Section I. Dynamics within Gendered Households
Chapter 1. Social Capital and Meeting Household Needs: A Study of Male- and Female-Headed Households in Ghana; Albert Kpoor and Sylvia Esther Gyan
Chapter 2. Determinants of Women's Empowerment in Agriculture in Botswana: The Abbreviated Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A-WEAI) Approach; Masa V. Motaung and Martin Bosompem
Chapter 3. 'Although Food is Not Always on the Table, I Feel Happy with My Family'. The Life Satisfaction among Mayan Families; Lukasz Czarnecki
Section II. Understandings of Caregiving and Gendered Agency
Chapter 4. The COVID-19 Border Closure as an Opportunity for New Gender Roles: Moroccan Women Trapped in the Spanish Enclave of Melilla; Lucía Granda, Rita Sobczyk, and Rosa M. Soriano-Miras
Chapter 5. Gendered Subjectivities of Care among Street Trading Women in Rural Venda: Negotiations and Resistance to Norms and Stereotypes; Pfarelo Matsila
Chapter 6. Who Cares for the Carers of People with Disabilities? Stories, Solutions and a Model from South Asia; Mary Wickenden and Ruth Patil
Section III. Changes and Challenges in Sexuality, Reproduction and Kinship Practices
Chapter 7. Reproduction as a Form of Aspiration: Medicalised Childbirth and the Case of Chinese Birth Tourism in the United States and Canada (1980-2017); Brandon Folse, Arafaat A. Valiani, and Bo Yang
Chapter 8. Redefining Adoptive Family Practices in Contemporary India; Sushri Sangita Puhan
Chapter 9. The Discursive Frontiers of 'Sacred Familialism' and Islamist Gender Nativism in Authoritarian Populist Politics in Turkey; Didem Unal
Chapter 10. Constructing Sexuality as Shame: Turkish Women's Emotions in Marriage; Aylin Akpınar
Section IV. Challenges in Heterosexual Systems
Chapter 11. LGBTQ+- Headed Families in Brazil and Chile: An Examination of Policies, Social Initiatives and Social Challenges; Kate Luxion, Diego Castro, and Bruno de Brito Silva
Chapter 12. LGBTQI+ Social Change in the Global South: Repositioning Resistance Risk, Equality and Wellbeing in Fiji; Mark Vicars, Ann Cheryl Armstrong, Peter Sipeli, John Tenamo Mānoa Erasito Teaiwa, Ratu Manoa Rokotavaga, and Mark Shaheel Lal
Chapter 13. A Family with Fluid Boundaries and Possible Ruptures: An Ethnographic Study of a Transgender Parivar in South India; Nimisha John
Section V. Domestic Worlds, Political Struggles: Gender at the Nexus of Family and State
Chapter 14. Dismantling 'Gender-Appropriate' Scripts: Young Jordanians' Practices of Creative Agency within Family Contexts; Ivana Cosmano
Chapter 15. Mundane Violence and Gender Politics: Young Women's Narratives from Northern Nigeria; Máiréad Dunne, Dauda Moses, Safiya Adamu, and Barbara Crossouard
Chapter 16. Politics of Gender and Resistance in the Arabian Gulf: A Feminist Theological Reading; Jihan Zakarriya
Chapter 17. Mothers' and Daughters' Relationships in the Aftermath of the Salvadoran Armed Conflict: A Strenuous Relationship; Paula Cuellar Cuellar
Epilogue - The Family as a Frontier of Hope: Gender, Agency, and Transformation in the Global South; Nawal H. Ammar and Aylin Akpınar
