Men, masculinity and the new coronavirus: sharing gender issues in the first phase of the pandemic

Ciencia e Saude Coletiva

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Benedito Medrado¹  Jorge Lyra¹  Marcos Nascimento²  Adriano Beiras³  Áurea Christina de Paula Corrêa⁴  Eric Campos Alvarenga⁵  Maria Lucia Chaves Lima⁵ 

[1] Departamento de Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. R. Academico Hélio Ramos s/n;Instituto Nacional de Saúde da Mulher da Criança e do Adolescente Fernandes Figueira;Departamento de Psicologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis SC Brasil.;Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Cuiabá MT Brasil.;Universidade Federal do Pará. Belém PA Brasil.

关键词: Men;    Masculinity;    Health;    Covid;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1413-81232020261.35122020

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Associacao Brasileira de Pos - Graduacao em Saude Coletiva

【 摘 要 】

This article presents reflections on masculinity and the social construction of gender – based on the global phenomenon of the new coronavirus pandemic – produced by researchers who are part of the national research team on comprehensive health care policy for men in Brazil. From a gender-based standpoint, the article contends that it is necessary to note that cis heteronormative male socialization is guided by three core issues: 1) the submission to practices of care of self and others; 2) the rejection of preventive health practices, due to a distorted matrix of risk perception (and a certain sense of “invulnerability”); 3) the domestic dynamics marked by postures of command, order, and honor. These dimensions of everyday life were profoundly upset in this first phase of the epidemic, in which confinement became the most recommended alternative. These issues are configured as recurring (though not recent) repertoires that glorify the central model of a male order that needs to become an object of reflection, insofar as they endanger the health of men and women and, more broadly, of the status quo of the accepted tenets of domestic and social order.

【 授权许可】

CC BY