Still 'breadwinners' and 'providers' : Singaporean husbands, money and masculinity in transnational marriages

Journal article

As international marriages continue to be on the rise around the world, and in East and Southeast Asia in particular, there is an increasing need for more focused studies on the phenomenon. While the extant literature has paid attention to the complex dynamics of marital intimacies through a ‘gender-sensitive’ lens, the experiences of men are still largely under-examined. This article considers the gendered and classed subjectivities of Singaporean husbands who have married Vietnamese wives a...

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Authors: Cheng, Y; Yeoh, B; Zhang, J

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Routledge
• Journal: Gender, Place and Culture
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 867-883
• Publication date: 2014-05-29
• Acceptance date: 2014-01-26
• DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2014.917282
• EISSN: 1360-0524
• ISSN: 0966-369X
• Language: English
• Keywords: masculinities; transnational marriage; Singapore; money; gender