Mulheres e o cuidado no Sistema Único de Assistência Social

Abstract

This article looks at care from a collective perspective, as social protection and its repercussions within Social Assistance services, focusing on the protagonists of the act of caring: women, whether they are users of social services or workers in the system. Through a review of the literature, the aim is to emphasize the woman-care relationship and reflect on their interaction in relation to the dichotomy of public-private spaces. This article also looks at the hegemonic conception of the family, the representations and different actions of women within the scope of the Social Assistance policy and the invisibility of men. The results show that Social Assistance services are unable to break with the conservative logic, based on actions that do not reach the complexity of everyday life, sustaining uncritical positions on the concept of family, reinforcing compulsory heteronormativity and naturalized gender roles.