Abstract

QUINTANA, Adriana B.  and  PEREZ LOPEZ, Vanesa. Subjectivity, identity and domestic world. Experiences of women in a condition/situation of disability who carry out active treatment in the I.Na.Re.P.S, Mar del Plata. Trab. soc. [online]. 2023, vol.24, n.40, pp.381-397.  Epub Jan 01, 2023. ISSN 1514-6871.

The purpose of this postgraduate work was to identify and analyze from a gender perspective the subjective changes that occur in women when redefining themselves in their domestic role based on a disability condition / situation. To respond to the objective of this work is approached from the qualitative methodology, narrative design, through the method of biographical productions, using the in-depth interview as an information gathering technique. The participants were 2 women with disabilities who undergo active treatment in I.Na.Re.P.S (Mar del Plata). As a guiding element, representations are located as a form of knowledge, attitudes and beliefs that they have built throughout their lives about the domestic role and the acquired disability as an event that breaks out generating profound changes in daily life. The stories are accompanied by expressions that account for the traditional mandates. This is detected in that all of them take charge of the housework, receiving in some cases only specific “help” from their partners. Although these women have a leading role, assuming it often erodes their self-esteem in the face of unfulfilled demands, especially when they go through a situation / condition of disability. Social work accompanies them in the resignification of that role assumed since birth, providing tools so that they become autonomous subjects and with the ability to face each obstacle in life, giving rise to joint reflection, incorporating other perspectives and building other possible paths.

Keywords : Disability; Social Organization of Care; Role of the female caregiver.

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