Relación de cuidado mujer/criança: dominación simbólica y desigualdad

Abstract

The objective of this article was to analyze the representations of gender around the relationship of care woman/children, from the qualitative analysis of the data obtained in the field work developed in the neighborhood called Potosi in the city of Bogotá. The finding shows that this care relationship is in a scenario of tensions, since the practices of the care is triggered by the vulnerabilities present in the territory converging in various forms of oppression. Among them, the naturalized attribution of early childhood care to women and the tendency to characterize the boy as strong and active, while the girl is characterized by her delicacy and weakness. This corresponds to an invisible system of provisions, maintaining social order and as consequence, structuring social relations that reproduce dynamics of inequality y vulnerability.