Hombres cuidadores: Barreras de género y modelos emergentes

Cendra, Dolors Comas d'Argemir i

doi:10.5027/psicoperspectivas-vol15-issue3-fulltext-750

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“…Men's ambiguous relationship with caring work becomes visible on the screen within a historical context where "care-free" and "nurturing" experiences for men are competing for attention (Hanlon, 2012). Indeed, care work is becoming more visible in the public sphere of Western societies as life expectancy gets higher and caregiving is moving out of the domestic sphere (Comas d'Argemir, 2016), and this is contributing to more diverse portrayals of care in media and popular culture. Thus, this new focus on care constructs masculinities associated with it, and at the same time discourses of masculinity redefine notions of care.…”

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“…Likewise, critical studies on men and masculinities have emphasized that the uptaking of caring tasks by men would and is contributing dramatically to equality between women and men (see for example Elliott, 2015). However, the social construction of caring masculinities is still hindered by many factors, such as economical, political and cultural barriers (Comas d'Argemir, 2016). One of those barriers, which we will look at in this article, is the construction of care and caregiving in cultural products such as fiction films.…”

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Portrayals of Caring Masculinities in Fiction Film: The Male Caregiver in Still Mine, Intouchables and Nebraska.

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Tortajada

Willem

2018

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This article analyzes the male caregiving characters Driss in Intouchables (2011), Craig in Still Mine (2012) and David in Nebraska (2013) in terms of hegemonic masculinity and its variations (Connell 1990; Connell and Messerschmidt 2005). Caregiving is a complex social situation normally assumed within kinship relationships, and traditionally attributed to women. We briefly review feminist analysis of caregiving since the 1970s (Fine and Glendinning 2005), and use critical studies on men and masculinities to show that the uptaking of caring tasks by men would and is contributing to equality between women and men (Elliott 2015). We have looked at the portrayal of the male caregivers in these films, and if and how they challenge hegemonic masculinity in terms of positive experiences. Our findings show that despite the tension men experience between giving in to and challenging patriarchal privilege of a care-free life, strategies such as humour, complicity, outdoor action and a general concern for the dignity of the care-receiver can be identified as some of these features of (imagined) caring masculinities and open new spaces for defining care as a gender neutral activity.

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Portrayals of Caring Masculinities in Fiction Film: The Male Caregiver in Still Mine, Intouchables and Nebraska.

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2018

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“…The barriers to men’s involvement in care are cultural and opportunity-related, and are closely interlinked (Comas-d’Argemir, 2016). The cultural barriers are based on the assimilation of care as something that women do and on hegemonic masculinity (Connell, 1995; Connell & Messerschmidt, 2005).…”

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Men as Carers in Long-Term Caring: Doing Gender and Doing Kinship

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Soronellas

2018

Journal of Family Issues

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In this article, we examine men’s involvement in long-term care for the elderly or sick relatives to locate changes in gender and kinship relations. Research on care has highlighted the role of gender, but has been blind as regards the link between care and kinship, which is taken as a given. We consider care as work and care as kinship by means of the concepts of “doing gender” and “doing kinship.” We use data from the qualitative research we are undertaking in Catalonia (Spain) and this text is based on 49 interviews. We found that men are becoming new agents in care, due to social and cultural changes which are leading to a renegotiation of how care is allocated. Caring produces gender and produces kinship, and as such the involvement of men in care resignifies the contents of these relations and calls the nature of these changes into question.

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“…Este cambio de paradigma lleva a plantear un reparto equilibrado de los cuidados entre individuo, familia, Estado y comunidad, así como entre hombres y mujeres y entre generaciones. (D´Argemir, 2016). Cuando se introduce el cuidado dentro de la política, este cuidado se acompaña de la ética (Fascioli, 2010), y THE CARE OF MAN IN PUBLIC POLICY sus lineamientos se establecen por tal orientación, "centrada en la realización de la justicia social como eje de sustentación de las políticas públicas para el desarrollo humano y social" (Arias, 2007, p. 27).…”

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2017

Rev.investigium:cienc.soc

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The article presents an advance of a study whose objective consisted of conceptually analyze care and how this is linked to public policy. The importance of the role of women in care practices is highlighted throughout history, passing through periods as the extermination of wise and elderly women called witches, who knew about the properties of plants and other natural elements to cure diseases, division of care between good and evil, considering disease as evil, which led to the isolation of patients in one place, giving rise to the hospitals. The methodology used consisted of the bibliographic review on the subject and in search of databases, such as: Hinari, Lilacs, Scielo, Pubmed and virtual libraries. Thus, an analysis was made based on philosophers such as Foucault, who relates the self-care, ethics and politics; from nursing, discusses the theory of diversity and universality of Leininger's cultural care is analyzed; Orem's self-care deficit theory and the theory of the humanized care of Watson, among others. It is concluded that care is essential for the welfare of society, a universal need and an essential part in the formulation of public policies of care; these are evident mainly with health programs that are implemented for the care of man from fertilization, early childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.

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Hombres cuidadores: Barreras de género y modelos emergentes

Cited by 19 publications

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Portrayals of Caring Masculinities in Fiction Film: The Male Caregiver in Still Mine, Intouchables and Nebraska.

Portrayals of Caring Masculinities in Fiction Film: The Male Caregiver in Still Mine, Intouchables and Nebraska.

Men as Carers in Long-Term Caring: Doing Gender and Doing Kinship

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