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FEMINIST THEORY
卷 24, 期 4, 页码 597-617出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/14647001221075538
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Childcare work; familism; grandmothers; individualism; neoliberalism
This article examines the changing relations between familism, individualism, and neoliberalism through the lens of grandmothers' childcare work. Based on interviews with retired women in Israel, the study investigates how grandmothers navigate between family ideologies and individualistic cultural imperatives while challenging the invisibility of their work. The study argues that neoliberalism strengthens family and familism, while familism facilitates the neoliberal labor market and frees the state from supporting families with children.
In this article, we employ grandmothers' childcare as a lens to explore the changing relations between familism, individualism and neoliberalism. More generally, we examine the connections between the political economy and the intimate moral economy of childcare work performed by grandmothers. Based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with twenty retired women in Israel, we examine how they negotiate, comply and resist the expectations that they will help 'fill in' the 'care deficit' resulting from neoliberal policies and labour market practices. We show how grandmothers navigate between family ideologies and individualistic cultural imperatives, constituting themselves as agentive subjects who can determine the conditions in which they meet their families' care expectations while challenging the invisibility of their work. Thus, using Israel as a case study, we argue that familism and individualism, working against each other as well as together, create tensions while mediating the political economy and the intimate moral economy based on the love, commitment and ideology of the 'good mother'. More broadly, we assert that neoliberalism strengthens family and familism and, at the same time, familism facilitates the neoliberal labour market and economy while also freeing the state from having to support families with children.
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