(Invisible) Care and Bodies for Others. A Case Study of Women from Córdoba, Argentina

 

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Autor: Bonavitta, Paola
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2020
Descripción:Women's bodies are built for others. In the midst of the patriarchal system, feminized bodies were relegated to the private sphere, destined for care work, domestic work, reproduction, nutrition, and so on. These tasks support the capitalist gear and are supposed to be done "out of love." This work shows the results of a territorial investigation with 60 women from the city of Córdoba, Argentina, who are between 20 and 60 years old. The purpose was to ask those women about the care work they perform, focusing on experiences in relation to caring, as well as to map the consequences of those tasks on their bodies. Methodologically, qualitative techniques such as participant observation, focused interviews, feminist cartography, and autoethnography were used. These allowed to address the experiences and subjectivities, as well as the social representations that those who carry out care tasks have. Among the results, one can see that women's bodies continue to exist for other people; however, it is also possible to register marks of resistance and transgressions to the roles that the sex-gender system has traditionally imposed on them.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/43759
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/intercambio/article/view/43759
Palabra clave:Women
care work
bodies
cartographies
exclusion
Mujeres
trabajos de cuidados
cuerpos
cartografías
exclusión
Mulheres
trabalhos de cuidados
corpos
cartografias
exclusão