Resumen:
Este estudio realiza una revisión sistemática de la investigación sobre prácticas de cuidados de autores/as africanos/as con una perspectiva feminista. La pregunta de investigación se ha desarrollado a través de la estrategia conocida por el acrónimo de PICo: Participantes; fenómeno de interés y contexto. En nuestro caso, consecutivamente, mujeres, feminismo y practicas de cuidado, y África subsahariana. Tras el proceso de filtrado de los 102 artículos seleccionados, veinte estudios superaron los criterios de inclusión. Mediante análisis temático fueron organizados en tres grandes categorías: Epidemia de VIH; Crisis de reproducción social y Cuidados Afrocomunitarios. Los trabajos analizados exploran los roles tradicionales de género y prácticas culturales como factores de riesgo o protección de contagio de VIH; la sobrecarga de labores de cuidados que afrontan las mujeres africanas ante la crisis de reproducción social; y las propuestas afrocomunitarias relacionadas con los cuidados.
Palabras-claves:
cuidados; feminismos africanos; estudios de género; VIH; afrocomunitarismo
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Source: Authors' own elaboration#ForEveryoneToSee This figure shows the revision procedure. The first step was the identification of articles found in different databases, 114 and 185 in AfricaBib; 22 in Pubmed; 16 in Psychinfo; 84 in Africa Wide Information; and 44 in Scopus. The second step was screening. Applying the PICo: Women, Care & Feminism, Sub-saharian Africa; we select 102 articles after removing 14 duplicated. Third step was eligibility. Applying the exclusion and the inclusion criteria, we find 30 articles eligible, 65 not eligible and 6 not reviewable. In the fourth and last phase, included, we resumed each of the 30 eligible articles with an analysis sheet and then we included 16 article and excluded 14. After that, we addes 4 articles through a snowball of included article references. Finally, we selected 20 articles for the review. The materials analyzed in this review are qualitative studies: case studies, ethnographic studies, substantiated theories, participatory action research, narrative analysis and studies of feminist critique. The review focuses on scientific articles, excluding books and grey literature, due to the difficulty of systematizing them. The selected articles were published between 2007 and the first quarter of 2018. Regarding the authorship of the articles, to determine whether the research met the requirement of being produced by African author(s) both the current institutional affiliation of the authors as well as their life stories were taken into account. Authors affiliated to African institutions and researchers with African origins educated in African countries but currently enrolled in institutions outside the continent were included. The searches were carried out in English