Family Care: Factors of Social Reproduction in Light of Gender Inequality

Authors

  • Claudia Krmpotic Unlam - Buenos Aires - Argentina
  • Lia Carla de Ieso UNLaM - Buenos Aires - Argentina

Abstract

This article proposes taking an uncommon route to understanding gender and inequality, based on functions organized around kinship and residency. In this sense, family and home are components of the function of “care” currently considered to be a valuable resource that is either tangible or intangible; in an environment that conciliates the productive and reproductive realm, at a time when family care is seen as a social problem and an object of public policy. Analyzing the relationship between gender and care allows linking not only the role of the family, State and market, but also including family oriented positions as well as a “defamilizing” regiment, while
also including in this dynamic other civil society, educational and legal institutions as well as belief systems.

Author Biographies

Claudia Krmpotic, Unlam - Buenos Aires - Argentina

Possui doutorado em Serviço Social pela PUC-SP. Investigadora del Conicet. Docente de grado y posgrado, e investigadora en las Universidades Nacionales de Buenos Aires, La Matanza, y del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.

Lia Carla de Ieso, UNLaM - Buenos Aires - Argentina

Becaria doctoral del Conicet. Docente en la Licenciatura en Trabajo Social de la Universidad Nacional de La Matanza.

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Published

2010-06-14

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2010): Desigualdades e gênero

Section

Thematic space

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