Abstract

Traditionally, emotions have been understood from an individual and intrapsychic standpoint. However, different authors agree on the need to consider social and collective aspects to understand emotions since they are mediated by social, historical, and cultural contexts. As such, gender differences in how emotions are expressed and experienced show political implications on society and influence the social order. Thus, affects play a role in producing and reproducing gender roles and gender stereotypes, which function to sustain social order. This chapter aims to theoretically review and analyze how the process of learning affects and socialization is influenced by gender roles, reproducing them, and its implications on the social order. We end this chapter by analyzing this relationship in the case of care work.