Author, as appears in the article.: Araüna, N.; Tortajada, I.; Willem, C.

Department: Estudis de Comunicació

URV's Author/s: ARAÜNA BARO, NURIA; TORTAJADA GIMENEZ, YOLANDA; WILLEM , CILIA MARGARETA MICHAEL

Keywords: masculinitats Cinema Gènere Etica de los cuidados masculinidades Cine gender perspective on the construction of masculinities film studies Caring practices and culture

Abstract: This article analyzes the male caregiving characters Driss in Intouchables (2011), Craig in Still Mine (2012) and David in Nebraska (2013) in terms of hegemonic masculinity and its variations (Connell, 1990; Connell & Messerschmidt, 2005). Caregiving is a complex social situation normally assumed within kinship relationships, and traditionally attributed to women. We briefly review feminist analysis of caregiving since the 1970s (Fine & Glendinning, 2005), and use critical studies on men and masculinities to show that the uptaking of caring tasks by men would and is contributing to equality between women and men (Elliott, 2015). We have looked at the portrayal of the male caregivers in these films, and if and how they challenge hegemonic masculinity in terms of positive experiences. Our findings show that despite the tension men experience between giving in to and challenging patriarchal privilege of a carefree life, strategies such as humour, complicity, outdoor action and a general concern for the dignity of the care-receiver can be identified as some of these features of (imagined) caring masculinities and open new spaces for defining care as a gender neutral activity.

Research group: ASTERISC. Grup de Recerca en Comunicació

Thematic Areas: C. informació i comunicació C. información y comunicación

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Keyword in other language: cura preventiva i integral Feminisme Medios audiovisuales y socialización

ISSN: 2014-3605

Author identifier: 0000-0002-1997-2833; 0000-0002-9310-652X; 0000-0002-8272-498X

Record's date: 2018-05-15

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/mcs/article/view/2749/pdf

Article's DOI: 10.17583/MCS.2018.2749

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2018

Publication Type: Article Artículo Article