Maternalism: Feminized Catholic Approach to Poverty
The feminization of social work is a remarkable phenomenon linked to the sexual division of work and affected by gender stereotypes such as the ones determined by certain Catholic sectors. Besides the social, political, and economic processes that lead to this idiosyncrasy, it can be attributed to t...
| Subtitles: | Catholicism in Latin America |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023
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| In: |
International journal of Latin American religions
Year: 2023, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 444-457 |
| Further subjects: | B
Argentina
B Poverty B Catholicism B Maternalism |
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| Summary: | The feminization of social work is a remarkable phenomenon linked to the sexual division of work and affected by gender stereotypes such as the ones determined by certain Catholic sectors. Besides the social, political, and economic processes that lead to this idiosyncrasy, it can be attributed to the association of women to motherhood, which is translated to the performance of caregiving tasks and to a specific attitude of approach to another which I will define as "maternalistic." I will base this study in the ethnography conducted for my doctoral thesis about the charitable intervention of Opus Dei in Argentina, addressing the "clash of classes" reflected in these rendezvous. Particularly, I will choose one of the gatherings to which I attended as part of the activities organized around poverty in a private Catholic school for women in the district of San Isidro, province of Buenos Aires. This study shows that these gatherings involve certain ways of approach to others by the volunteers, which produce specific reactions and perceptions of the poor about themselves. |
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| ISSN: | 2509-9965 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of Latin American religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s41603-023-00217-6 |