Subaltern Maternities: To be or not to be a mother in decolonial epistemologies and black feminism
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Resumo: | The debate about the social and cultural construction of motherhood, its dimension of controlling the bodies and the reproduction of women, is a very consolidated ground in Western feminist theory. Not only History, but Philosophy, Social Sciences, Psychology, among other fields, have dedicated many pages to reflections on gender conditioning present in the myth of an innate and unconditional maternal love. However, just as it is not possible to conceive of a universal way of being a woman, it is necessary to understand that there is not a single way of being a mother, but plural forms of maternity, some of them subordinated and / or marginalized by the colonizing process. In this sense, the contributions of black and decolonial feminisms are fundamental to break the existing limits in a Eurocentric, white and bourgeois / liberal feminist perspective that, for a long time, remained unaware of the diversity of women's issues or even colluded with a process of domination- exploitation-oppression over their lives. Such studies thus allow to “decolonize” the view of motherhood and gender relations, for the consolidation of a feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial epistemology. So, this is the main contribution of this article, which, through a theoretical-bibliographic analysis of practical orientation, interrogates subaltern motherhoods as a key to reading the experience of non-white women in post-colonial contexts. |
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Subaltern Maternities: To be or not to be a mother in decolonial epistemologies and black feminismMaternidades subalternas: ser ou não ser mãe nas epistemologias decoloniais e do feminismo negroThe debate about the social and cultural construction of motherhood, its dimension of controlling the bodies and the reproduction of women, is a very consolidated ground in Western feminist theory. Not only History, but Philosophy, Social Sciences, Psychology, among other fields, have dedicated many pages to reflections on gender conditioning present in the myth of an innate and unconditional maternal love. However, just as it is not possible to conceive of a universal way of being a woman, it is necessary to understand that there is not a single way of being a mother, but plural forms of maternity, some of them subordinated and / or marginalized by the colonizing process. In this sense, the contributions of black and decolonial feminisms are fundamental to break the existing limits in a Eurocentric, white and bourgeois / liberal feminist perspective that, for a long time, remained unaware of the diversity of women's issues or even colluded with a process of domination- exploitation-oppression over their lives. Such studies thus allow to “decolonize” the view of motherhood and gender relations, for the consolidation of a feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial epistemology. So, this is the main contribution of this article, which, through a theoretical-bibliographic analysis of practical orientation, interrogates subaltern motherhoods as a key to reading the experience of non-white women in post-colonial contexts.O debate sobre a construção social e cultural da maternidade, sua dimensão de controle dos corpos e da reprodução das mulheres, é um terreno bastante consolidado na teoria feminista ocidental. Não somente a História, mas a Filosofia, as Ciências Sociais, a Psicologia, entre outros campos, dedicaram muitas páginas às reflexões sobre os condicionamentos de gênero presentes no mito de um amor materno inato e incondicional. Entretanto, assim como não é possível conceber uma forma universal de ser mulher, se faz necessário entender que não existe uma única forma de ser mãe, mas sim formas plurais de maternidades, algumas delas subalternizadas e/ou marginalizadas pelo processo colonizador. Nesse sentido, as contribuições dos feminismos negro e decolonial são fundamentais para romper os limites existentes em uma perspectiva feminista eurocêntrica, branca e burguesa/liberal que, por muito tempo permaneceu alheia a diversidade das questões das mulheres ou mesmo conivente com um processo de dominação-exploração-opressão sobre suas vidas. Tais estudos permitem assim, “descolonizar” o olhar acerca da maternidade e das relações de gênero, para consolidação de uma epistemologia feminista, antirracista, anticapitalista e anticolonial. Essa é então a principal contribuição do presente artigo que, por meio de uma análise teórico-bibliográfica de orientação prática, interroga as maternidades subalternas enquanto chave de leitura da experiência de mulheres não-brancas em contextos pós-coloniais.Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina2022-03-28info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/emtese/article/view/8313010.5007/1806-5023.2022.e83130Em Tese; v. 19 n. 1 (2022): Dossiê: Horizontes do "pós-colonial"; 87-1071806-5023reponame:Em Tese (Florianópolis)instname:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)instacron:UFSCporhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/emtese/article/view/83130/48563http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSantos Almeida, Miléia2022-03-28T16:56:31Zoai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/83130Revistahttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/emtese/PUBhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/emtese/oaiportaldeperiodicos.bu@contato.ufsc.br||revistaemtese@gmail.com1806-50231806-5023opendoar:2022-03-28T16:56:31Em Tese (Florianópolis) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)false |
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Subaltern Maternities: To be or not to be a mother in decolonial epistemologies and black feminism Maternidades subalternas: ser ou não ser mãe nas epistemologias decoloniais e do feminismo negro |
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Subaltern Maternities: To be or not to be a mother in decolonial epistemologies and black feminism Santos Almeida, Miléia |
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The debate about the social and cultural construction of motherhood, its dimension of controlling the bodies and the reproduction of women, is a very consolidated ground in Western feminist theory. Not only History, but Philosophy, Social Sciences, Psychology, among other fields, have dedicated many pages to reflections on gender conditioning present in the myth of an innate and unconditional maternal love. However, just as it is not possible to conceive of a universal way of being a woman, it is necessary to understand that there is not a single way of being a mother, but plural forms of maternity, some of them subordinated and / or marginalized by the colonizing process. In this sense, the contributions of black and decolonial feminisms are fundamental to break the existing limits in a Eurocentric, white and bourgeois / liberal feminist perspective that, for a long time, remained unaware of the diversity of women's issues or even colluded with a process of domination- exploitation-oppression over their lives. Such studies thus allow to “decolonize” the view of motherhood and gender relations, for the consolidation of a feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial epistemology. So, this is the main contribution of this article, which, through a theoretical-bibliographic analysis of practical orientation, interrogates subaltern motherhoods as a key to reading the experience of non-white women in post-colonial contexts. |
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