Subversive familiy: single-parent male family
paternity, solo parenting, adoption, care, gender
The aim of this work is to identify aspects relating to individual discursive
configurations that express the experience of care and paternity from a gender perspective.
Based on these configurations, indicators are developed that reveal aspects of paternal care in
this individual dimension that is constituted from practices and models of social and historical
understanding of what family, paternity, roles and care are. Paulo Freire, Edgar Morin and
Fernando Rey recognize the importance of subjectivity as a structuring element in scientific and
pedagogical production. As such, an epistemological revision is proposed for the human
sciences in relation to the Cartesian paradigm towards a complex socio-historical paradigm. It is
also based on the understanding that subjectivity is constituted through daily processes and
experiences. In order to understand adoptive single parenthood and the dimension of care, the
analysis is based on the performativity and heteronormativity pointed out by Judith Butler, as
well as the sociological analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's field and habitus and symbolic violence.
The research is based on a qualitative analysis using Bardin's content analysis. Semi-structured
interviews and a sociodemographic questionnaire were carried out.