Gender regimes in vulnerable households during the recession – what has changed and what not?

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the relationship between gender and resilience in households strongly affected by the economic crisis and subsequent recession of the last decade. More specifically, in the first section the aim is to analyse the ways in which different gender regimes in the households studied helped or hampered their capacity to overcome hardship during this period, while the second section explores the ways in which different coping styles and the strategies set in motion to overcome difficulties in turn influenced gender relations at the household level, shaking up existing gender orders.