Abstract

VERAS-IGLESIAS, Gabriela. Sexuality and reproduction as political terrains of motherhood. Rev. urug. Antropología y Etnografía [online]. 2023, vol.8, n.1, e833.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 2393-7068.  https://doi.org/10.29112/ruae.v8i1.1833.

In this article I propose to work on how the sexuality, reproduction and maternity categories and how they question each other, opening new horizons to inhabit the experiences of women and feminized bodies. For this, I make visible some practices that are expressed in terms of mandate-desire, control-liberation. However, my interest is in emphasizing how feminisms have contributed to denature and re-signify personal experiences, which despite being lived from private spheres, are structured from the political.

From this perspective, I propose to problematize three dimensions: (1) central contributions of feminist thought for the deconstruction of the mandates of the sex-gender ordering; (2) I briefly characterize the legalization of the interruption of pregnancy and equal marriage as an arena of dispute that makes explicit the progress of the struggles and the constant search for control by the conservative-patriarchal actions. On the other hand, I dwell on some resonances that unfold from homoparental family compositions, especially lesbian co-maternities; (3) I address the processes of pregnancy and childbirth, which make up the sexual-reproductive-maternal experience, as spaces that transit between mandates and desires. I return to the fight for the termination of pregnancy and address the fight for humanized labor and birth, as a fertile field to reflect on tensions, powers and gray areas.

This work is part of the progress of the master's thesis, which aims to question the construction of maternity from feminisms. The fragments of interviews are part of the field work carried where I used the biographical method, especially the "life story" technique to analyze the trajectories of feminist women.

Finally, I am interested in looking at how, from personal experiences as well as feminist practices and the LGBTIQ+ movement, they have been corroborating the promotion of different disorders of the mandates that revolve around sexualities and reproduction.

Keywords : sexuality; maternity; reproduction; feminisms..

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