Masculinization Of Women Essay

Roy (2003) initially identifies the poverty of the rural-urban space is a construct of shelter as a form of space for poor migrant workers, which often have to live in shacks constructed from construction sites and garbage dumps: “Swapan and Sumitra’s Patuli unit with an extension built with material gathered from construction sites” (Roy, 2003, p.82). This aspect of the “body” describes the limited space provided for small groups of people, which are formed by scavenging construction sites to find material to build “shacks” and other improvised structures. Also, the “question of gender” provides a gauge for the male and female stereotypes of work, which often involve subjective domestication of women’s work: “Migrant and commuter households survive primarily through the work of women as low-paid domestic …show more content…
This form of masculine politicization results in the forced servitude of women as domestic servants, which allows the men to sit idle within a high unemployment environment. The example of Sridham exemplifies this form of cruel patriarchy in Patuli: “I have been to ill to work for the last ten years. Didn’t my wife tell you how ill I have been? She needs a tight slap once in awhile to remind her of things” (Roy, 2003, p.114). This is part of marginalized masculinities define the life of poverty that males endure in Indian, which becomes part of a “settlement/club culture” that occurs within these microcosms of urban scape. More so, the historicizing masculinities defines the long discourse of squatting culture, which exposes the idea of “double-gendering’ as part of the male and female roles in the