Abstract

TRUJILLO OLIVERA, Laura Elena; NAZAR BEUTELSPACHER, Austreberta; ZAPATA MARTELO, Emma  and  ESTRADA LUGO, Erin I. J.. Domestic group, diabetes and gender: renovating or dying. Pap. poblac [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.58, pp.231-256. ISSN 2448-7147.

Based on the categories of gender analysis a typology of domestic group is proposed. Qualitative methodology was applied to explore the ways in which gender relations make interactions that generate uneven opportunities for diabetes mellitus self-care between men and women. 23 in-depth interviews were carried out with women and men who suffer diabetes in order to understand the way the former and the latter, in quotidian domestic interaction, mediated by gender relations, respond to subjacent phenomena such as economic precariousness, violence, emotional contradictions, among others, an how these elements' conjugation condition diabetes' self-care.

Keywords : gender unevenness; familial organization; health, disease; attention; gender violence; Chiapas.