Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law: Intergenerational relations within the Chinese family in Taiwan
Gallin, R.S.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 1(1): 31-49
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0169-3816 PMID: 24390769 DOI: 10.1007/bf00116017Document Number: 332717
This paper examines the relations of mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law in a Taiwanese village that has changed over the past 25 years from an economic system based primarily on agriculture to one founded predominantly on off-farm employment. Using ethnographic data, it explores Amoss and Harrell's (1980: 5) proposition that the position of old people is a function of a 'cost/contribution balance' compounded by resources controlled. It concludes that economic development shifts power between women in different generations.
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