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`I'm not his Wife'

Doing Gender and doing Housework in the Absence of Women

Kristin Natalier

School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania, Kristin.Natalier{at}utas.edu.au

Share households composed solely of men are a site in which masculine identities in the home are disembedded from marital ideologies. This allows us to unravel the connections between housework, power and what it means to be a man. The study finds that the domestic labour practices of men who reside with their peers reflect those traditionally associated with husband-hood, although the bases for these interactions, and the associated play of power, differ in the absence of a wife. It is evident that gender continues to be an important organizing principle of domestic labour outside marital homes.

Key Words: gender • housework • masculinity • share households

Journal of Sociology, Vol. 39, No. 3, 253-269 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/00048690030393003
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