Capitalist production and social reproduction: the gender issue from the experiences of women in the same family
Historical-Cultural Psychology; Social Reproduction Theory; Experience;Family.
The supposed progress in the fight for equality in labor relations, propagated by the neoliberal idea of greater women’s integrations into the labor market, is problematized from the complexity of social reproduction situated within the capitalist totality, arguing that the inequality in the division of domestic labor follows the logic of capital accumulation. Understanding that the movement of the materiality of class, race and gender relations is dialectically related to the complexity of individual experiences, this research aimed to analyze how the relationship between exploitation and oppression is updated, remains and faces resistance in the daily lives of women from the same family. To achieve this, the research was conducted in two moments. In this article, the suggested articulation between analytical categories of Historical-Cultural Psychology and Social Reproduction Theory, pertaining to the first moment, will be presented in dialogue with the presentation of data from the second moment, of approaching the field. As a continuation of a previously conducted investigation, the participant group in this study consisted of three generations of women from the same family. In-depth interviews guided by life history were conducted, which, together with the field diary notes, formed the material analyzed using the method of dramatic collision nuclei. The analysis indicates that, in order to grasp the complexity of the universal dimensions, in unveiling the particularities of social relations, it is essential to look at the singular contradictions at the symbolic, cognitive, and affective levels, conformed between the limits and possibilities of the historical, political, and cultural course.