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Modernity and Matrifocality: The Feminization of Kinship?
Author(s) -
Jackson Cecile
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
development and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-7660
pISSN - 0012-155X
DOI - 10.1111/dech.12141
Subject(s) - kinship , modernity , feminization (sociology) , sociology , politics , gender studies , state (computer science) , social change , late modernity , political science , social science , anthropology , algorithm , computer science , law
The extensive analytical focus on how gender relations in working lives, employment, education, political engagement and public life change under modernity needs extension into a consideration of the ways in which kinship and relatedness have also been changing. This article argues that relatedness under modernity tends towards matrifocality. This is explored through looking at broad patterns of social change in kinship practices across a range of societies experiencing transitions towards modernities over the past fifty years, and at how state and NGO development and social protection programmes contribute to this matrifocal turn.