MASCULINITIES AND CAREGIVING PRACTICES IN TIMES OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Masculinities; Care Practices; Covid-19 Pandemic.
In faced with the COVID19 pandemic, scenario experienced around the world since the
beginning of 2020 to 2022, we were needed from rearrangements, at work, in social
relationships and familiar, to overcome the imposed difficulties for the life preservation, what
we conventionally call social distancing to prevent the spread of the virus. Faced with the
context of exposure of men to the virus to support the worker's place and the need to be at home
for virus containment, a problematic environment arises that does conflict with the masculinity
of man as a public, and it is necessary to be in a private place. Therefore, we aim to understand
how Brazilian men dealt with care practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using discursive
practices as a methodological framework, we analyze interviews with men participating in a
free virtual therapeutic group. We conclude that in pandemic scenario, with the greater
conviviality of these men with their families, the greater the problems of domestic spaces, such
as conflicting and distressing situations, and greater thought about themselves and their
relationship with the other were required…Spaces such as the therapeutic group and mental
health care were marked as essential to help deal with this public-private change, highlighting
the importance of spaces for listening and speaking for men, as spaces for care and resignification of masculinities and disinvestment of men-sexist and patriarchal practices.