Housewife hidden savings is a type of savings traditionally kept in the home by housewives in non-egalitarian marriages who are unbanked. It can be seen as a form of resistance to patriarchy,[1] as well as a hedge against a husband's profligacy or as a contingency fund, or as security in case of divorce.[2]
The phenomenon exists in multiple countries, and can become a social or political issue, for example in the 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation.[3] In some societies, this surreptitious custom is attached to a particular term, idiom, or other cultural expression: In Japan, it is referred to as hesokuri ("navel hoarding"), or in the past it was haribako-gin ("sewing box silver");[4][5][6] in Germany, it is referred to as schwarze Kasse ("black coffer");[7] and in Eastern European Jewish communities, it is called the knipl ("knot", as in a knotted kerchief).[8][9]
References edit
- ^ Parpart, Jane L.; Connelly, Patricia; Barriteau, Eudine (2000). Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development. IDRC. p. 82. ISBN 9780889369108.
- ^ Beattie, Cordelia; Stevens, Matthew Frank (2013). Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe. Boydell Press. p. 38. ISBN 9781843838333.
- ^ "India's 'desperate housewives' scramble to change secret savings". BBC News. 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ^ Tanikawa, Miki (2006-08-04). "Out of the dresser and into the bank - Your Money - International Herald Tribune". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ^ Lebra, Takie Sugiyama (1976). Japanese Patterns of Behaviour. University of Hawaii Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780824804602.
- ^ Joya (2017-07-12). Japan And Things Japanese. Routledge. p. 348. ISBN 9781136221866.
- ^ Hunefeldt, Christine (2010-11-01). Liberalism in the Bedroom: Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima. Penn State Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-0271044170.
- ^ Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman (1997). The Social Meaning of Money. Princeton University Press. p. 88. ISBN 0691048215.
- ^ Rosten, Leo (2010-04-14). The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated. Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony. p. 183. ISBN 9780307566041.