Abstract

SOLARI, Sol Scavino. Care and gender subjectivity. A discourse analysis of single mothers with little children. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2017, vol.7, n.1, pp.141-168.  Epub May 31, 2017. ISSN 1688-7026.

Based on the hypothesis that in order to redistribute care labor it is necessary to know and work on the production of gender subjectivities, this study aims to explore the self-definition of women as caregivers and the heterodefinition of males (parents) in relation to child care.

A discourse analysis of 16 in-depth interviews with montevidean women who constitute single-parent female households with children aged 6 years and younger was performed. Different discursive mechanisms that show gender subjectivities in care were detected. There are argumentative discourses that reproduce a logic that places men as economic providers exempted from care and domestic work, and women as unquestionable caregivers. The discourses are significantly different among women of medium- high and low socioeconomic levels. The article tries to advance in the knowledge of gender relations around child care in order to have elements to work from the institutions and the public policies that seek the transformation of sexual division of labor, co-responsibility and redistribution of care labor in Uruguay.

Keywords : subjectivity; gender; care; maternity.

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