Past and present visions about the family, women and the distribution of unpaid work in Argentina

Abstract

In this paper  there will be a view of the way in which care is perceived by the different positions that authors recognized by the Social Sciences. These approaches do not intend to converge in a historical study, but seek to be a critical rereading of these works by identifying those elements that are useful for the understanding of care in specific social contexts and at specific times of knowledge development. For this, a review of the theoretical developments of classical authors who turned the family into an object of scientific study will be made, considering it as a social institution with its own history. This view is important - and necessary - to identify those contributions made in relation to care and family; especially, from a gender perspective. Next, in the following points, discussions will be explored in relation to unpaid reproductive work in family settings from a gender perspective. To which are detailed the conceptualizations of domestic work, the use of time and the breakdown of a tripartite relationship: the tasks carried out within the home from a working figure, the perception of care by the State and, finally, the conciliatory interrelation perpetrated between the work carried out in the private sphere and in the professional one.