122 research outputs found
Affective equality: love matters
The nurturing that produces love, care, and solidarity constitutes a discrete social system of affective relations. Affective relations are not social derivatives, subordinate to economic, political, or cultural relations in matters of social justice. Rather, they are productive, materialist human relations that constitute people mentally, emotionally, physically, and socially. As love laboring is highly gendered, and is a form of work that is both inalienable and noncommodifiable, affective relations are therefore sites of political import for social justice. We argue that it is impossible to have gender justice without relational justice in loving and caring. Moreover, if love is to thrive as a valued social practice, public policies need to be directed by norms of love, care, and solidarity rather than norms of capital accumulation. To promote equality in the affective domains of loving and caring, we argue for a four-dimensional rather than a three-dimensional model of social justice as proposed by Nancy Fraser (2008). Such a model would align relational justice, especially in love laboring, with the equalization of resources, respect, and representation
O gĂȘnero do discurso parlamentar: mulheres e homens na tribuna da cĂąmara dos deputados
On the relational dynamics of caring: a psychotherapeutic approach to emotional and power dimensions of womenâs care work
Care is double-edged and paradoxical, inspiring a vast range of strong feelings in both
care-givers and care-recipients. This paper draws on ideas about psychotherapeutic
relationships to offer a theorisation of the complex emotional and power dynamics and
imaginative geographies of care. Examining the humanistic approach developed by Carl
Rogers as well as the psychoanalytic tradition, I advance an interpretation of
psychotherapeutic practices that foregrounds the fundamental importance of the
emotional and power-inflected relationship between practitioners and those with whom
they work. I show how different traditions offer conceptualisations of the shape of
therapeutic relationships that are highly relevant to consideration of the emotional and
power dynamics of giving and receiving care. Against this background I discuss current
debates about care, emotions and power, drawing especially on feminist and disability
perspectives and arguing that psychotherapeutic approaches offer a powerful lens
through which to understand the emotional and power dynamics of caring relationships.
I conclude by emphasising how this theorisation helps to illuminate ubiquitous features
of womenâs care work
Mothers construct fathers: Destabilized patriarchy in La Leche League
This paper examines changing masculine ideals from the point of view of women homemakers through a case study of La Leche League, a maternalist organization dedicated to breastfeeding and mother primacy. We suggest two reasons for studying the League: first, an emerging literature suggests that changing norms are seeping into many such seemingly conservative groups, and second, the League continues to be highly successful among white, middle-class, married women. The paper looks at two aspects of masculinity, examining changes in the League through fieldwork, interviews, and content analysis, and finds that new norms of increased father involvement and decreased rights over women's bodies have both influenced League philosophy. We conclude that while in some respects a measure of the decline of men's patriarchal privileges, the League's changes also may contribute to a ârestabilizationâ of male dominance in a modified, partial form.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43548/1/11133_2004_Article_BF00990071.pd
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