Gender, care and families: their plots and intersections

• Main Authors: Sabrina Finamori, Flávio Rodrigo F. Ferreira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Londrina 2018-12-01
• Series: Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: gênero; cuidado; família; parentesco.
• Online Access: http://www.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/35651

Considering the centrality that the notion of relatedness or relationality (Carsten, 2000 and 2004) have acquired in contemporary research that deals with family and kinship, as well as the important analytical yields of the notion of care (HIRATA and GUIMARÃES, 2012), we propose to make a balance on the relations between gender, care and families, having as a guiding line our own academic trajectories as researchers in these fields of study. We argue that the discussion of care may be in line with the recent debates around family / kinship as relationality, since it brings to the fore the dimensions of affections, reciprocities as well as the dimensions of class, race, generation, and intertwining between family , market and State.