The ‘Male’ Voice in Care
The ‘Male’ Voice in Care

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the ‘male’ voice in the field of care through life-stories and aims to go beyond the stereotypical gender discourse in which men are represented mostly as ineffective in providing care because they cannot emulate (or take over completely) the role of women. Interpreting the family as the central institution in a period of crisis, the main question the article seeks to answer is what are the gender-specific roles of men and women in it. More specifically, the male voice is found to be not only different and complementary to the female voice; it voices a specific way of thinking ‘outside the system’ and even a sort of resistance against the traditional notions and state policies of care.

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