Vulnerability, Gender and Social Policies: the Feminization of Social Inclusion

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  • Dagmar Estermann Meyer Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Carin Klein Prefeitura Municipal de Canoas/RS
  • Maria Cláudia Dal’Igna Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos
  • Luiz Fernando Alvarenga Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

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https://doi.org/10.1590/%25x

Abstract

The article unfolds from a survey conducted with managers and technicians related to municipal secretariats involved with the implementation of policies and programs of social inclusion, in a city of the Metropolitan area of Porto Alegre/RS. From the perspective of gender studies and post-structuralist cultural studies, we discuss a movement of genderification that we have named “feminization of social inclusion”, focusing on the employment situation and working conditions, the infrastructure of services and the ways in which professionals/technicians perceive themselves on the implementation of policies. We argue that promoting social inclusion presupposes to develop and play a set of capabilities represented as being from ‘the order of the feminine’, that are constitutive of the feminization incorporated and made by policies.

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Published

2014-09-19

How to Cite

Meyer, D. E., Klein, C., Dal’Igna, M. C., & Alvarenga, L. F. (2014). Vulnerability, Gender and Social Policies: the Feminization of Social Inclusion. Revista Estudos Feministas, 22(3), 885–904. https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

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