Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes
In the present article, I ask about the principal representations of infant caregiving as a problem of public policy present in official documents and in the current rhetoric of Ecuadorian state functionaries. I use a deliberative focus for the analysis of public policies and argue that these repres...
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| description | In the present article, I ask about the principal representations of infant caregiving as a problem of public policy present in official documents and in the current rhetoric of Ecuadorian state functionaries. I use a deliberative focus for the analysis of public policies and argue that these representations are characterized by the ambivalence between visions that consider women as principally responsible for caregiving and that position the state and the market as protagonists as well. Elements are joined that could favor changes in traditional representations, as the inclusion in discourse of co-responsibility and in practice of the professionalization of caregiving. This article makes evident that infant caregiving is a complex category and in political dispute, whose forms of representation have the capacity of producing specific subjectivities that are marked by aspects such as gender and class. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5a049524cf2e4ad3be7b1406d878dc782025-02-02T04:15:47ZspaFacultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede EcuadorÍconos1390-12492224-69832014-09-0118509711010.17141/iconos.50.2014.1431Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential ChangesVirginia Villamediana0FLACSO EcuadorIn the present article, I ask about the principal representations of infant caregiving as a problem of public policy present in official documents and in the current rhetoric of Ecuadorian state functionaries. I use a deliberative focus for the analysis of public policies and argue that these representations are characterized by the ambivalence between visions that consider women as principally responsible for caregiving and that position the state and the market as protagonists as well. Elements are joined that could favor changes in traditional representations, as the inclusion in discourse of co-responsibility and in practice of the professionalization of caregiving. This article makes evident that infant caregiving is a complex category and in political dispute, whose forms of representation have the capacity of producing specific subjectivities that are marked by aspects such as gender and class.https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/1431infant caregivingpublic policiesdiscourse analysisgenderstateecuador |
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| title | Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes |
| title_full | Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes |
| title_fullStr | Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes |
| title_short | Representations of Infant Caregiving as a Problem of Public Policy in the Ecuadorian State: Ambivalences and Potential Changes |
| title_sort | representations of infant caregiving as a problem of public policy in the ecuadorian state ambivalences and potential changes |
| topic | infant caregiving public policies discourse analysis gender state ecuador |
| url | https://revistas.flacsoandes.edu.ec/iconos/article/view/1431 |
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