@article{ref1,
title="The ambiguous experience of motherhood in the Western Bohemian countryside: exploring rural gender inequalities through the framework of precarity",
journal="Sociologia Ruralis",
year="2019",
author="Decker, Anja",
volume="59",
number="3",
pages="517-539",
abstract="Perspectives from Central and Eastern Europe rarely find their way into the debate on rural gender inequality. In this article, I aim to mitigate this imbalance by exploring everyday arrangements of women with dependent children in a peripheralised rural region of the Czech Republic. Using an expanded framework of precarity that integrates different spheres of work, I demonstrate that in the spatial context studied, motherhood increases the social disadvantage women face while simultaneously constituting an important field of female agency. I further show that in order to identify room for manoeuvre within configurations of insecurity the whole life-situation of women must be taken into consideration. My findings add to a nuanced and context-sensitive understanding of gender inequality in the European countryside, in particular by highlighting the field-specific interaction of low-wage economy, gendered division of work and mobility, and concepts of rural childhood, good (grand)parenting and self-sufficiency. The study draws upon semi-structured interviews and ethnographic research.   © 2019 The Authors. Sociologia Ruralis © 2019 European Society for Rural Sociology.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0038-0199",
doi="10.1111/soru.12257",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soru.12257"
}