Pensieri, ruoli, pratiche femminili: tempo, lavoro, generatività - Women’s thoughts, roles and practices: time, work, generativity

Women’s thoughts, roles and practices: time, work, generativity In an attempt to represent and give back a possible represen-tation (among many possible ones) of feminine adultness, as it is comes into being in the Italian sociocultural context, this contri-bution intends to analyze three specific categories, such as time, work, generativity. The intention is to investigate and to read, from a pedagogical point of view, the different roles and caring practices enacted everyday by women, both in the public and private sphere, or situations. These three categories – including generativity considered in its different meanings and semantic implications – have been se-lected, because they are representative of the complexity of living, and of being adult in the contemporaneity (and this implies hav-ing different social roles). Of living and being among social, fa-miliar, working roles and freely chosen tasks, not unlinked from other roles and tasks, connected to “exogenous” requests, to so-cial representations and/or to socioeconomic demand (externally imposed, imposed from the outside). This analysis shows how gender education and lifelong learn-ing are essential to focus and to facilitate a better role and task adherence (in adult people) both in relation to the meaning that they really have in everyone’s life (and therefore to personal self–realization) and to individual and social empowerment.