Peace in the Household: Gender, Agency, and Villagers' Measures of Marital Quality in Bangladesh
基于孟加拉国农村的纵向民族志研究，发现低收入穆斯林女性认为婚姻质量带来家庭和平，并识别出八种衡量好丈夫的地方标准，挑战了传统讨价还价模型，对发展政策有启示。
Although development studies have emphasized quality of life, the quality of marriage remains uninvestigated. This study challenges the bargaining model by arguing that theories of marital quality, derived from women's voices and subaltern knowledge, should be integral to feminist economic theories of marriage and intrahousehold gender relations. Findings from a longitudinal (1999–2009) ethnographic study of microcredit loanee families in rural Bangladesh reveal that Muslim women believe high marital quality or togetherness leads to peace in the household. This local model of marriage is central to the moral economy of social life. The study identifies eight local measures of marital quality that define what low-income women think a good Muslim husband should be like. The study concludes that the peace-in-the-household model emphasizes the transformation of masculinity as a program strategy that should be implemented in microcredit households in various parts of the world.