"Being mother: contemporary narratives" / Ser Mãe: Narrativas de Hoje

AUTOR(ES)

Kimy Otsuka Stasevskas

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1999

RESUMO

Different social groups have been increasing and decreasing their value as well as presenting changes in their social roles, through history. In the political, economic and social game, patterns of behaviour were designated to women and the motherhood has been considered, for many cultures and for a long period, the most important feminine attribute. Since the colonial Brazilian period, State, Church and Science’s interests have been providing some important ideas related to being mother. Recently, society suffered changes that for the woman mean new social status what contributes to reassuring and transforming the way of being mother. Qualitative methods were chosen to analyse the data from this study. Fifteen young mothers were interviewed following a opened questionnaire, trying to get the women’s experiences as mothers. The discourses indicate the reflection themes presented in this work: actions and feelings that were presented as eternal, the responsibility in education, the difficulties in conciliating work and child’s care, family, projection of bad aspects related to mother/child relationship. Lastly, the motherhood’s ideological net’s influences in being and building the mother’s every day life, and vice-versa. Therefore, regarding the social roles in this transitional moment, there are old and still active ideas affecting the present woman’s status as a mother in her being mother’s wish and in her way of being it.

ASSUNTO(S)

motherhood feminilidade femininity gender maternidade gênero

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