Autor según el artículo: Araüna, N.; Tortajada, I.; Willem, C.

Departamento: Estudis de Comunicació

Autor/es de la URV: ARAÜNA BARO, NURIA; TORTAJADA GIMENEZ, YOLANDA; WILLEM , CILIA MARGARETA MICHAEL

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

Resumen: 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.

Grupo de investigación: ASTERISC. Grup de Recerca en Comunicació

Áreas temáticas: C. informació i comunicació C. información y comunicación

Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Palabra clave otro idioma: cura preventiva i integral Feminisme Medios audiovisuales y socialización

ISSN: 2014-3605

Identificador del autor: 0000-0002-1997-2833; 0000-0002-9310-652X; 0000-0002-8272-498X

Fecha de alta del registro: 2018-05-15

Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Enlace a la fuente original: https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/mcs/article/view/2749/pdf

DOI del artículo: 10.17583/MCS.2018.2749

Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Año de publicación de la revista: 2018

Tipo de publicación: Article Artículo Article