Glucksberg, Luna (2018) A gendered ethnography of elites: women, inequality, and social reproduction. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 81 (2018). pp. 16-28. ISSN 0920-1297
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Abstract
This article offers a critical ethnography of the reproduction of elites and inequalities through the lenses of class and gender. The successful transfer of wealth from one generation to the next is increasingly a central concern for the very wealthy. This article shows how the labor of women from elite and non-elite backgrounds enables and facilitates the accumulation of wealth by elite men. From covering “the home front” to investing heavily in their children’s future, and engaging non-elite women’s labor to help them, the elite women featured here reproduced not just their families, but their families as elites. Meanwhile, the affective and emotional labor of non-elite women is essential for maintaining the position of wealth elites while also locking those same women into the increasing inequality they help to reproduce.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/foc... |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 Stichting Focaal and Berghahn Books |
| Divisions: | International Inequalities Institute |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2018 15:09 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Mar 2024 02:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/89700 |
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