Caring through the lens of African Feminisms: A systematic review

• Autor(a) principal: del Villar-Toribio, Cristina
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Saavedra Macias, Javier, Calderón-García, Marina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Estudos Feministas
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/77471
• topic: cuidado; feminismos africanos; estudos de gênero; HIV; afro-comunitarismo; cuidados; feminismos africanos; estudios de género; VIH; afrocomunitarismo; Care; African Feminisms; Gender Studies; HIV; Afro-Communitarianism

This study presents a systematic review of the research into care practices by African authors with a feminist perspective. The research question has been developed through the strategy known as PICo: participants, phenomenon of interest and context. In our case, these are women, feminism and care practices, and sub-Saharan Africa respectively. After the process of filtering 102 selected articles, twenty studies met the inclusion criteria. They were organized into three broad categoriesusing thematic analysis: HIV epidemic; crisis of social reproduction, and Afro-communitarian care. The papers examined explore cultural practices and traditional gender roles as risk or protective factors for contracting HIV; the overload of care work that African women face with regard to the crisis ofsocial reproduction; and the Afro-communitarian proposals in relation to care.