Abstract
The article explores the articulations between gender, family and State from the issue of childcare during the covid-19 pandemic and based on a case study of the controversial around the management of the (non) school reopening at Rio de Janeiro. The aim is to analyze the construction of this social problem to take the terms of its constitution in the public sphere and the forms of state management adopted as the object of a critical feminist analysis anchored in an ethnic of care.
Keywords:
children; gender; care; covid-19; schools reopening