Quando nasce um bebê, nasce também uma mãe?: maternidade e reprodução humana assistida em mulheres laqueadas / When a baby is born, also a mother born? ": maternity and assisted human reproduction in sterilized women

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

In this thesis I analyze the trajectories of sterilized women who wish to have a new experience of maternity by means of assisted human reproduction, identifying the agents and socializing institutions which contributed to the decision taken. The analysis focuses on the understanding of how the trajectory is constructed, from the repentance of the original sterilization through to the renewal of the desire for maternity. On the basis of the hypothesis that maternity and the blood relationship are still preponderant in the constitution of the family, the author has described and analyzed these trajectories and their implications in the act of the reconstruction of the family, seeing that the return to the renewed experience of maternity arises as a desire followed by action, some years after the establishment of the second marital relationship. During the discussions with the women involved, other relevant questions such as the greater value attributed to the discourse on the origin of individuals and, in consequence, of the biologization of the social dimension and of the naturalization of the roles involved, arose. The field of study consisted of women who were awaiting assisted human reproduction treatment at a hospital of the public health network of the State of São Paulo. We, the women concerned and the author, met on several occasions: sometimes all together, at others, individually, by means of these contacts building up a certain affection. Thus the material was composed of the transcriptions of the discussion group, of the interviews and of the notes made in the field diary. Assisted human reproduction is, nowadays, becoming widespread, determining the primacy of biology, of the science which can provide whoever seeks it with the possibility of having a baby the source of whose genetic material is safe, certain, genes of ones genes. And this biologization of the social dimension brings with it another subliminal question, because in undergoing assisted human reproduction treatment, the woman concerned perpetuates and guarantees the family ideal, the background of her own upbringing: only one mother, only one father, in brief: one only and undoubted origin. There is a discourse of the renewed value of pregnancy, a biological and biographical event par excellence. It is important that the women who participated in this study, and as many others scattered throughout this country, should be better informed (about contraceptive procedures, sterilization, risks, assisted human reproduction, its collateral effects and the possibilities of success, among other things) so that, once in possession of this knowledge, they might make their choices unconstrained.

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assisted bourdieu bourdieu casamento esterilização tubária família family mãe marriage mother public health reproductive techniques saúde pública sterilization técnicas reprodutivas assistidas tubal

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