Housewife hidden savings

Housewife hidden savings is a type of savings traditionally kept in the home by housewives in non-egalitarian marriages who are unbanked. It can be seen as a form of resistance to patriarchy,[1] as well as a hedge against a husband's profligacy or as a contingency fund, or as security in case of divorce.[2]

The phenomenon exists in multiple countries, and can become a social or political issue, for example in the 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation.[3] In some societies, this surreptitious custom is attached to a particular term, idiom, or other cultural expression: In Japan, it is referred to as hesokuri ("navel hoarding"), or in the past it was haribako-gin ("sewing box silver");[4][5][6] in Germany, it is referred to as schwarze Kasse ("black coffer");[7] and in Eastern European Jewish communities, it is called the knipl ("knot", as in a knotted kerchief).[8][9]

References
  1. Parpart, Jane L.; Connelly, Patricia; Barriteau, Eudine (2000). Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development. IDRC. p. 82. ISBN 9780889369108.
  2. Beattie, Cordelia; Stevens, Matthew Frank (2013). Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe. Boydell Press. p. 38. ISBN 9781843838333.
  3. "India's 'desperate housewives' scramble to change secret savings". BBC News. 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
  4. Tanikawa, Miki (2006-08-04). "Out of the dresser and into the bank - Your Money - International Herald Tribune". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
  5. Lebra, Takie Sugiyama (1976). Japanese Patterns of Behaviour. University of Hawaii Press. p. 61. ISBN 9780824804602.
  6. Joya (2017-07-12). Japan And Things Japanese. Routledge. p. 348. ISBN 9781136221866.
  7. Hunefeldt, Christine (2010-11-01). Liberalism in the Bedroom: Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima. Penn State Press. p. 57. ISBN 0271044179.
  8. Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman (1997). The Social Meaning of Money. Princeton University Press. p. 88. ISBN 0691048215.
  9. Rosten, Leo (2010-04-14). The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated. Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony. p. 183. ISBN 9780307566041.
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