["Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 275-296, May 2026. ", "\nABSTRACT\nIn postwar Sarajevo, repair is mainly a masculine activity, and people lean on communal networks to get things fixed under dire economic circumstances. Yet increased numbers of women without men in their households as an effect of the war necessitate the mediation of other women in facilitating access to men's labor. Women of social capital who have access to men gain prestige by proffering male repair services. Examining the case of a gender‐nonconforming woman provides rich insight into the pivotal role that “gender propriety” plays in establishing systems of daily care, normalcy, and social order in Bosnia. The mundane gendered work of repairing broken things ultimately depends on cultivating, sustaining, and sometimes recalibrating relationships among women.\n"]