Algunas reflexiones metodológicas al abordar experiencias reproductivas de los varones desde las políticas públicas

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the way in which the male population has been considered in public health policies and programs related to reproductive behavior of the population in Mexico. It assumes a context in which women have been identified as the protagonists and reference subjects on whom interventions are built in the field of reproductive behavior. The text includes a review of some programs and public policies in Mexico, then present some methodological proposal considering gender as a relational concept. The interest is epistemological, so there is an interest in reflecting on assumptions behind the logic of government interventions in the field of reproduction and then building on some methodological proposals that allow a relational interpretation of women and men as gender subjects, who potentially can reproduce themselves within heterosexual or homosexual couples.

Masculinities and Public Policies in Latin America

“…Only 2.6% of men in the region have had vasectomies, whereas 26% of women have been sterilized (Ross and Hardee 2017). Most reproduction statistics account for women rather than men, as if the latter were not also fertile beings (Figueroa-Perea 2016; Olavarría and Madrid 2005).…”

Hombres, Salud sexual y salud reproductiva

“…(40). Los ser vicios reproductivos no estim ulan la participación masculina en el em barazo y el parto, a lo q ue se añade q ue las facilidades y oportunidades laborales de los ho m bres para participar activamente en estas etapas son mínimas, según lo expuesto por Figueroa en su análisis so bre las políticas públicas y las experiencias reproductivas masculinas (72).…”