Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 in Italy had its first epidemic manifestations on January 31, 2020. The socio-sanitary rules imposed by the government concerned the social distance and management of intimate relationships, the sense of individual responsibility toward public health. Physical distancing and housing isolation have produced new representations of intrafamily, generational, neighborhood, community responsibility, bringing out a new “medicalized dimension” of society. In light of this contextual framework, the research aims are to analyze how: the perception of individual responsibility for public and familial health and physical distancing has redrawn the relation between subjects-family-community; the State's technical-health intervention has reformulated the idea of social closeness, but also how the pandemic fear and social confinement has re-evaluated a desire for community, neighborhood, proximity; during the lockdown families, friends, neighbors have reconstructed feelings of closeness and forms of belonging. The methodology used is quanti-qualitative and involved 300 women through an online questionnaire. The data collected highlight how the house during the lockdown is perceived as a safe place and how women implement both the recommendations and the behaviors aimed at preventing contagion, but also ways that allow coping with the situation from a perspective of well-being. Furthermore, the data show how the dimension of distancing has loosened the relational dimension outside the family unit, with a greater distancing compared to pre-pandemic data. However, the majority of women report that they have joined solidarity initiatives, demonstrating that they want to maintain ties and participate actively in community life.
Highlights
The world emergency that emerged with the COVID-19 contagion has brought out numerous reflections on these aspects, in particular with respect to the relationship between security, care for the weakest and intergenerational relations that are realized starting from the idea of a sort of “health citizenship” [1] where access to resources is granted to those who fall into behavioral
In the pre-COVID society, studies had highlighted the growth of the individualization process, both in the family [5,6,7], and in society [5, 8, 9]
The questions are based the results of earlier research that the authors were developed during the first period of lock-down due to the pandemic COVID-19 that have involved 1,250 participants [49]
Summary
The world emergency that emerged with the COVID-19 contagion has brought out numerous reflections on these aspects, in particular with respect to the relationship between security, care for the weakest and intergenerational relations that are realized starting from the idea of a sort of “health citizenship” [1] where access to resources is granted to those who fall into behavioralItaly: Women Face COVID-19 Pandemic patterns of protection against risk. The world emergency that emerged with the COVID-19 contagion has brought out numerous reflections on these aspects, in particular with respect to the relationship between security, care for the weakest and intergenerational relations that are realized starting from the idea of a sort of “health citizenship” [1] where access to resources is granted to those who fall into behavioral. Despite the differences in the different countries, in many cases the institutional health policies have rewritten the intergenerational pact promoting care through physical distancing. Physical distancing and housing isolation have produced new representations of intrafamily, generational, neighborhood, community responsibility, bringing out a new “mediatised dimension” of society. The pandemic emergency has radicalized the trends already in place in society and produced new and unexpected reconstructions of the social bond, and of the public dimension of individual responsibility. In the pre-COVID society, studies had highlighted the growth of the individualization process, both in the family [5,6,7], and in society [5, 8, 9]
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