Invisibles. Observations from the Critical Discourse Analysis on the presence —or absence— of housewives as workers in the Argentine pension system

Authors

  • Tatiana Marisel Pizarro Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas, Universidad Nacional de San Juan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3701-5156

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46468/rsaap.16.2.A3

Keywords:

Social policies, Care, Unpaid work, Retirement of housewives, Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

This article explains how the housewife has been discursively built as deserving of pension rights in Argentina. The texts and journals of sessions analyzed correspond to the law 25.994, law 26.970, and law 27.260, for the period 2004-2016. The methodological proposal of this research is qualitative and its approach is from the Critical Discourse Analysis, under the guidelines of Fairclough and Wodak (2000) and Burman and Parker (1993). It is explained how the State discursively relating women’s work with care and reproductive tasks consequently falls into the essentials of a patriarchal ideal of the feminine. These constructions allude to being a housewife as a constitutive part of the feminine identity and not as an external aspect to it.

Published

2022-11-22