SOCIAL-REPRODUCTIVE WORK, HEALPH RIGHT AND COVID-19: AN INSIGHT IN THE LIGHT OF THE FRASER´S THEORY OF INTERSECTIONALITY: AN INSIGHT IN THE LIGHT OF THE FRASER´S THEORY OF INTERSECTIONALITY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17058/rdunisc.vi66.17527Abstract
Thispaper has as its object of study the theme of the right to health of black and poor women in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic. Thispaper analyzes the relation between Fraser’s theory of interseccionality and the impact of the Covid-19 on the health of black and poor women who take on care functions and activities considered essential that could not be interrupted in the pandemic. The main research question consists in questioning: what was the relatationship between Fraser’s theory of interseccionality, established from a neo-marxist rereading, and the diproportionate impact of the Covid-19 on the lives and health of black and poor women who take on the care jobs and activities considered essential in the Brazilian pandemic context?
It is argued, in the light of the Fraser’s theory of interseccionality, that the possibility of social isolation for women who took on social reproductive work and who were overrepresented in thefrontline activities in the Brazilian pandemic context was permeated by criteria of race, gender and class, and such positions of subjection are produced by capitalist society, conceived as an institutionalized social order.
As a result, although black and poor women are primarily responsible for reproductive social work in elite families and many of them have taken on activities considered essential, they remain deprived of acess to qualified care services and the right to life during the pandemic context as a result of a broad commodification of care services promoted by neoliberal capitalism. The research technique used is the indirect documentation through bibliographic investigation of the theoretical frameworks of Fraser and Marx and documentary research resulting from the survey of primary statistical sources. The work uses the historical-analytical method by Fraser.