In an ageing society, elderly care is a mainstream topic, calling into play not only formal but also informal care provided by the family. Women have historically been positioned as primary subjects to rely on within the domestic politics of intergenerational care, both in broader social discourses and within situated experiences, through the enactment of often stereotypical family scripts. This paper explores how women frame this situation building on a thematic analysis of a sample of posts from a dataset of discussion threads collected from an Italian online forum, where interacting parts shared stories and perspectives about the care of their elderly relatives. This work attempts to unravel the complexity of women’s experiences associated with their socially expected role of informal caregivers, exploring how through these discussions the interacting parts reinforce and/or de-construct specific pedagogical frameworks of family caregiving.

In una società “che invecchia”, la cura degli anziani è un tema molto dibattuto che chiama in causa non solo i sistemi di cura formali, ma anche informali, in particolare la famiglia. Le donne sono state storicamente posizionate come soggetti primari predisposti alla cura, tanto nei discorsi sociali sull’argomento quanto nell’ambito delle esperienze individuali, attraverso la messa in atto di copioni familiari spesso stereotipici. Il contributo esplora il modo in cui le donne stesse inquadrano la questione attraverso un’analisi tematica di un campione di post provenienti da un dataset di discussioni raccolte su un forum online italiano, dove le parti interagenti condividono storie e prospettive associate al loro ruolo di cura dei genitori anziani. Il lavoro intende svelare la complessità delle esperienze vissute da queste donne rispetto al loro ruolo socialmente atteso di caregiver informali, esplorando come attraverso tali discussioni si rafforzino e/o decostruiscano determinati modelli pedagogico-culturali di caregiving familiare.

Cino, D. (2024). Elderly care as an epistemic object to confirm and deconstruct gendered family scripts. PEDAGOGIA OGGI, 22(2), 273-282 [10.7346/PO-022024-34].

Elderly care as an epistemic object to confirm and deconstruct gendered family scripts

Cino, D
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2024

Abstract

In an ageing society, elderly care is a mainstream topic, calling into play not only formal but also informal care provided by the family. Women have historically been positioned as primary subjects to rely on within the domestic politics of intergenerational care, both in broader social discourses and within situated experiences, through the enactment of often stereotypical family scripts. This paper explores how women frame this situation building on a thematic analysis of a sample of posts from a dataset of discussion threads collected from an Italian online forum, where interacting parts shared stories and perspectives about the care of their elderly relatives. This work attempts to unravel the complexity of women’s experiences associated with their socially expected role of informal caregivers, exploring how through these discussions the interacting parts reinforce and/or de-construct specific pedagogical frameworks of family caregiving.
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elderly care; informal caregiving; family scripts; gendered caregiving: online community of practice
cura degli anziani, caregiving informale, copioni familiari, caregiving di genere, comunità di pratica online
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2024
22
2
273
282
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Cino, D. (2024). Elderly care as an epistemic object to confirm and deconstruct gendered family scripts. PEDAGOGIA OGGI, 22(2), 273-282 [10.7346/PO-022024-34].
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