“Who “takes care?”

Reflections on male absence and female leadership in child health care

Abstract

The work presents results that derive from an ethnographic investigation into therapeutic itineraries and care practices developed by mothers and child priests affected by cancer, in the framework of the migratory processes produced by the Northwest (NOA) and the Northeast ( NEA) Argentine for the care of this patient. If you believe that in the hospital environment, a naturalization of care is reproduced on the ground as a feminine and maternal function, a bell that, furthermore, is also a stereotype of masculinity not prone to these issues, reflected, is the latter, both in the perspectives of them and the professors about who assumed it would be necessary to assume this role, as in the narratives of women. The objective is to discuss the feminine protagonism over the masculine, putting in tension the persistence of practices and hegemonic representations about the care, recovering the narratives of the women.