Estratégias e dinâmicas da produção do cuidado em famílias intergeracionais

Abstract

The present work has as its theme the care in contemporary society from the perspective of the experience of women in intergenerational families, and based on a feminist approach that considers it fundamental to understand the relationships between class, race, gender and generation, in a dimension of totality, seeking to rescue a Marxist theoretical tradition, but rescued by a bias that updates and invigorates it, highlighting tools that help to understand capitalist society from critical theoretical contributions in the field of feminism, such as the Theory of Social Reproduction, for example, and the dialogue that it can establish with other aspects, such as materialist feminism and black feminism itself. This is because there is still a latent tendency in society for women figures to be responsible for carrying out domestic and care work, which historically has had an impact on their life trajectories and in all phases of it, since today there is an ever changing change greater in the profile of these women, who even when old and inserted in family dynamics marked by intergenerationality - a context raised by different aspects - continue to participate in the care cycle, not only as targets of it, but also agents. Much of this scenario is further aggravated by a neoliberal state model that, over the years, has been exempt from assuming a prominent role with regard to the social protection of these families, creating a culture of self-responsibility and individual entrepreneurship, promoting attacks on rights and social services, while making invisible who are the subjects who have borne the consequences of these dismantling. The research has a bibliographic character, and intends to analyze, based on existing empirical productions, the trends with regard to the materialization of care promoted by families and, in particular, by women, and the extent to which the individuals responsible for this care have been reached or abandoned in terms of social protection, also pointing out possible gaps and categorizing these trends, in order to point out possible analytical depths.