Housewife hidden savings explained

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]}

Notes and References

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2. Book: Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe. Beattie. Cordelia. Stevens. Matthew Frank. 2013. Boydell Press. 9781843838333. 38. en.
3. News: India's 'desperate housewives' scramble to change secret savings. 2016-11-11. BBC News. 2017-11-25. en-GB.
4. News: Out of the dresser and into the bank - Your Money - International Herald Tribune. Tanikawa. Miki. 2006-08-04. The New York Times. 2017-11-25. en-US. 0362-4331.
5. Book: Lebra, Takie Sugiyama. Japanese Patterns of Behaviour. 1976. University of Hawaii Press. 9780824804602. 61. en.
6. Book: Joya. Japan And Things Japanese. 2017-07-12. Routledge. 9781136221866. 348. en.
7. Book: Hunefeldt, Christine. Liberalism in the Bedroom: Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima. 2010-11-01. Penn State Press. 978-0271044170. 57. en.
8. Book: Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman. The Social Meaning of Money. 1997. Princeton University Press. 0691048215. 88. en.
9. Book: Rosten, Leo. The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated. 2010-04-14. Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony. 9780307566041. 183. en.