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The neoliberalisation and marketisation of fertility have had – and continue to have – tremendous impact on conceptualizations and affordances of kinship. Through the case of Ana Obregón, which caused great controversy in 2023 in Spain, this project examines how ART components such as transnational surrogacy, sperm donation and posthumous reproduction are not only responding to, but also changing, the ways in which family-making is perceived and practised. Following the steps of feminist contributions to the field, this lens interrogates how kinship, a traditional anthropological theme and key social system, is reinserted in new contexts where ARTs predominate. To answer these questions, I explore the public perceptions of this case conveyed in both the press and social media in order to understand how narratives surrounding kinship, surrogacy, posthumous reproduction, and grand/motherhood are constructed and carried out. From a narrative research conceptual framework, a digital ethnography seeks to demonstrate how this case interrogates common sense and exemplifies an alternative family-building strategy which also becomes disruptive as it is inserted into new possibilities allowed by global third-party reproduction. This project also seeks to engage with the existing literature at the intersection of ARTs and kinship to offer a different avenue beyond the classic Anglo-American bibliography. Looking at how women’s bodies shift from private to public sphere when and where childbearing is involved, I explore how subjectivities and asymmetries are conveyed in the public discourse, thus highlighting the power of a single case study to reflect normative attitudes and sociocultural debates.

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By means of the epistemology of intersectionality, three categories are brought together and questioned in the implementation of public policies for family strengthening in the child protection system: childhood, gender and disability. Women with disabilities, considered strangers to traditional hegemonic and patriarchal mandates, challenge the exercise of motherhood under criteria that are overvalued and demanded compared to women with psychosocial or intellectual disabilities. They challenge the prevailing mandate of hegemonic motherhood, which does not conceive of other designs for the exercise of the constitutional and conventional right to family life. States have the obligation to design support systems (arts. 12 and 19 CRPD) so that women with disabilities are not separated from their children because of their disability. Children and adolescents have the right not to be discriminated against because of the condition/situation of their parents (art. 2 CRC) and to be raised by them (art. 9). Support systems should be effective public policies for strengthening families so that children can remain in the care of their mothers in accordance with their best interests and so that mothers can exercise their maternity on an equal footing with other persons, as mandated by the Constitution.

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The present study investigates the application of necropolitics in the Brazilian prison system, focusing on pregnant women. Drawing on theoretical frameworks of mass incarceration and the ruling on the State of Unconstitutional Affairs, the study explores how the State exerts power over life and death within prisons, creating a cruel selectivity that disproportionately affects marginalized bodies. It addresses the vulnerability faced by these women, highlighting the precarious medical care, unsanitary conditions, and structural neglect that endanger both the lives of pregnant women and their children. Using a legal-descriptive methodology and a review of secondary data, the article reveals the discrepancy between legal provisions and the reality within prisons, particularly regarding the protection and care of pregnant and lactating women. The aim is to demonstrate the human rights violations faced by this group, a result of selective punitive policies that exacerbate inequalities and precarious conditions in the prison system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the extension project "Emotional aspects of breastfeeding: psycho-educational approach to mothers and companions using the HC-UFU HMB", the extension workers have the opportunity to listen to mothers and family members who come to the Human Milk Bank (HMB) of the Hospital de Clínicas of the Federal University of Uberlândia seeking guidance on breastfeeding. In view of the work carried out in the project, this experience report aims to present the activities, results, and lessons learned by the extension workers, as well as reflecting on the wealth of knowledge that underpins and goes beyond extension practices. The results point towards the refined use of listening resources, in an extensive practice, for the establishment of sensitive listening - especially in the reception of different affections that emerge in a hospital context, which permeate the social imaginary of motherhood -, as well as the contributions to the students' academic training. The conclusion is that the action proved to be fruitful in terms of promoting exchanges between the community and the local technical team, offering the extension workers the opportunity to enrich their own knowledge, technical resources, and professional and ethical attitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Given the relevance of the ghost in fantastic and speculative fiction, this paper seeks to interrogate the mobilization of the spectral as a main tool for enacting a process of historical revision and for the configuration of an alternative historical memory. Such inquiry will be developed through the analysis of two contemporary neo-slave narratives, Grace (2016) by Natashia Deón and Let Us Descend (2023) by Jesmyn Ward, that illustrate the current shift toward anti-realist representations of historical processes. Adopting the theoretical framework of spectrality studies, this examination will discuss the intersections of the spectral with aspects of gender, maternity and temporality. The multi-layered dimensions of ghosts and the bidirectionality of haunting deployed in these novels redefine the spectral as a subversive space of resistance and a chief literary mechanism to articulate a major socio-political reflection on the condition of Blackness in the United States at present.

Abstract: This descriptive and exploratory study aimed to analyze the conceptions of mothers, siblings and adolescents with autism based on the family aspect, the maternal experience and the fraternal relationships. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 12 mothers (between 33 and 50 years old), 15 siblings with typical development (between four and 16 years old) and two adolescents with autism (aged 11 and 13 years old). The results were analyzed using content analysis, and the conceptions of process, person, context and time of the bioecological model were considered. The participants showed similar family conceptions. The mothers expressed the need to distinguish between typical and atypical motherhood. The siblings characterized their relationship experience as good, although those with autism prefer to play alone. It is expected to contribute to the implementation of interventions and public policies that consider the entire family and not just the person with autism.

Historically, studies on parenting were mostly based on maternal reports, generating uncertainties about its conclusions. Inverting this logic, in Brazil, the Inventory of Father Involvement (originally developed in the USA to assess men) was improved and adapted for mothers, generating the Inventory of Father and Mother Involvement (IFMI). The IFMI’s content validity was verified, but its internal structure was still unknown. This study aimed to verify evidence of validity based on its internal structure, reliability estimates and the invariance of this structure for fathers and mothers. For this purpose, 1244 fathers and mothers from 22 Brazilian states (with children aged 2 to 10) answered the Sociodemographic Questionnaire and the IFMI. Exploratory (EFA; n = 621), confirmatory (CFA; n = 623) and multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (MGCFA) were performed, and reliability estimates were verified. EFA and CFA results indicated the existence of seven factors in a second-order hierarchical structure. Reliability estimates ranged from .635 ≤ ω ≥ .875. MGCFA results indicated the invariance of this structure for fathers and mothers. In addition to the evidence of validity, these results contribute to broadening theoretical understandings about Brazilian parenting, enabling future comparative studies. It is important to further verify additional validity evidence.

This article investigates the experience of motherhood, from a Structural Phenomenon perspective, emphasizing the impact of social pressures and the process of becoming a mother. It addresses the historical and cultural influence that idealizes motherhood and the emotional and psychological challenges faced during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, with a focus on women's mental health, which is often neglected. The initial psychic fusion between mother and baby is discussed, highlighting the need to adapt to the structural immaturities of the newborn in the dimensions of temporality, spatiality, corporeality and interpersonality. The concept of the ‘eclipsed self’ is introduced to illustrate how the demands of motherhood can obscure a woman's identity. The conclusion is that it is important to have a psychological clinic that is sensitive to these issues and provides support for both mother and baby, recognising women as integral subjects, beyond their role as carers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this article is to describe the obstacles faced by women in organizations while experiencing motherhood. For this, was adopted a quantitative and descriptive research, using an online questionnaire for data collection and descriptive analysis. As a result, it was identified that the woman still continues to realize lower salary than the man; that they have been putting off or giving up on being mothers; that the incidence of dismissal after the end of the tenure guaranteed by law has increased; and that, generally, when returning to work, the distance between the mother and the baby makes breastfeeding difficult, interrupting it. Thus, it is coherent to state that much has to be done to minimize this existing gap due to gender and becoming a mother. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Archives have attracted renewed attention since the late 1990s and have been examined from different disciplinary perspectives. Far from being merely an artifact of power and at the service of states or colonial states (Stoler 2010), archives have also served to demonstrate and contest various forms of violence and thus shed light on different violations marked by their opacity. They are also reservoirs of social memory and bearers of a high affective and emotional value. The purpose of this work is to analyze the potential of a unique archive that we propose to create, based on a collaborative ethnographic research, to collect the testimonies of women who currently denounce having had their children separated from them at birth without their consent. The purpose of this archive will be to safeguard and emphasize the value of these stories, which for a long time were silenced and which not only reveal the different violent practices generally exerted on very young women who were forced to give up their children for adoption or were directly deprived of them, but also the prejudices and stigmas that later weighed on them. In this article we will examine the potential of building a documentary reservoir of this type and some of the challenges involved in this task. To do so, we first analyze the narratives of the women we have already interviewed in the framework of our research work, which focuses on the 2012-2022 period, in Argentina, in order to account for the particular characteristics of their stories and claims. These are semi-directed and in-depth interviews that we have conducted in an ethnographic research and that have allowed us to learn about and analyze the practices of which these women were victims and also the meanings that they attribute to them. Next, we present a review of some of the most important contributions that different authors have made on “alternative archives” or “community” archives. Thus, we argue that establishing an archive with silenced voices can serve as a tool to shed light on various violations and contribute to understanding different ways of managing “out-of-place motherhoods,” (Fonseca 2012) while also being a tool to challenge diverse forms of violence and serve as a mechanism for reparation

The aim of this article is to place the short story A escrava (1887), by Maria Firmina dos Reis, in the public discussions about slavery and abolition in Brazil. Based on this bibliographical survey, which includes her work for various newspapers in Maranhão, the state in which she was born, we have gathered elements that enable us to analyze how the author represents the (enslaved) black person as a political subject with her own voice, through which she expressed her memory, subjectivity and affectivity in the context of enslaved motherhood. In this way, we can see how Maria Firmina dos Reis intervened in the daily life of her time through literature. The examination of her writings allows for the re-signification of black history, but this time by a woman, a writer and an Afro-Brazilian, not to mention that this reopens the discussion about the inclusion or exclusion of her production in national literary and historiographical criticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite numerous changes in family models and dynamics in the past decades, traditional families (monogamous and heterosexual) remain the most frequent in Brazil. This study sought to identify the discursive formations regarding parenting in the discourses of heterosexual parents. Data were collected with five couples and investigated using Pêcheux's discourse analysis. Results showed discursive formations specific to paternal parenting (work and financial provision; sacrifice of time with children; authority, assertiveness, and rationality in raising children) and maternal parenting (pleasure from motherhood; priority of domestic care, education, and child development; sufferings and self-sacrifice in favor of husbands and children). These differences result from discursive and ideological distinctions traditionally attributed to men/husbands/fathers and women/wives/mothers which can be replicated in child socialization and in gender relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aimed to analyze the process of constructing and conducting research on teenage pregnancy with high school students in the daily life of a public school in Fortaleza, Ceará, based on a qualitative study using the Intervention Research approach. By an extension course for high school students, a research project was developed in the school in which the public school students themselves were co-researchers on the topic of teenage pregnancy in the school environment. The methodological tools used were field journals, online questionnaires, and restitution. Results showed differences in the roles of the mother and father during adolescence, difficulties in completing education, and obstacles in entering the job market, especially for girls. Therefore, this research could question the representation of maternity and paternity issues, promoting spaces for listening and dialogue in the promotion of equity with students who experience parenthood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article makes a mariological analysis of Galatians 4:4-5 and seeks to highlight their contributions to the foundation of the christian faith. The oldest biblical reference to Jesus’ mother is found in Gal 4:4-5. The “apostle of the gentiles” (Rom 11:13) refers to Mary of Nazareth in the context of the incarnation of Son of God, without mentioning her name. The pauline expression “born of woman” (Gal 4:4) refers to the precarious and fragile human condition assumed by the Son of God. The expression “born under the law” (Gal 4:4) indicates Jesus’ ethnic origin. He is the son of a jewish woman. Galatians 4:4-5 served as the basis for future mariological elaborations. The Church Fathers resort to this pauline reference to answer to gnostic currents and nestorianism. The Letter to the Galatians indicates Mary’s divine motherhood and her collaboration in the history of salvation indirectly. Paul’s mariology is quite sober and strictly christocentric. The analysis of this protomariology leads to the rediscovery of the first foundations of biblical and systematic mariology. Initially, the article deals with the mystery of the incarnation in the corpus paulinum and analyzes the chiastic structure of Gal 4:4-5. Then, it delves into the expressions “born of woman” and “born under the law” and highlights the importance of Galatians as an early response to docetism and nestorianism. Finally, it suggests in Paul an elementary biblical mariology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We sought to understand the domestic work and care-providing activities carried out by women who fathered children with congenital Zyca virus syndrome (or microcephaly). Anchored by the ergological perspective, we conducted a study with the participation of nine mothers of children born with disabilities due to the Zyca epidemic. All the participants were from the northeast of Brazil, 28 years old on average; most of them were black and had little schooling. The results show that these women have a set of tasks to perform that go beyond the ordinary activities of conventional motherhood, requiring a know-how that is built up in practice, in interaction with health professionals and with other mothers who have similar experiences. The findings endorse the debate on care work, questioning the myth that it is unqualified and reaffirming it as a complex task that requires engagement and intelligence for carrying it out and managing it on a daily basis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we analyze the interweaving between motherhood, care, and emotional grammars. In the first part of the article, we discuss the research fields of kinship, care, and emotions in their particularities and their intersections. In the second part of the article, we mobilize some research scenes to reflect on how the micropolitics of emotions operate in practice the relationship between care and kinship. We argue that the relationships between kinship, care, and emotions are crossed by normative dimensions and power relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Abstract This study aimed to evaluate social support and marital relationships in women with and without postpartum depression (PND), investigating the relationship between these constructs and the positive and negative impacts of each of them for the PND. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 67 women (32 with depression and 35 without depression) with children aged between 51 and 77 days. The results indicated that women with PND (assessed through the EPDS) had lower scores in perception of social support and identified their marital relationships as more conflicting. In the hierarchical model, demographic variables (baby’s age and maternal education) and marital relationship explained part of the variance of symptoms of PND. Social support did not prove to be a significant predictor in the model. Among the factors evaluated, the quality of the marital relationship was the most important to minimize the risk of developing PND, being an aspect subject to interventions by health professionals.

In Brazil, the adoption process requires judicial qualification, including a psychological assessment. This study describes and compares the personality characteristics of women legally qualified to adopt or who had already become adoptive mothers, with those of biological mothers. The participants were 60 female volunteers (State of São Paulo, Brazil), aged 30-50, in a marital union, with high school level education. Of these, 40 were infertile and did not have biological children, and 20 were biological mothers. They completed an individual battery of psychological assessment instruments covering personality, with the focus of this study on the Rorschach Method (Paris School). The results were analyzed descriptively and inferentially, revealing similarity in the indicators, with performance compatible with the normative standard for Brazilian adults. The findings demonstrated that women waiting to adopt or who were adoptive mothers had adequate psychodynamic resources, as expected of prospective adopters, suggesting ecological validity for the psychological assessment process conducted in the judicial context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to analyse the novel Actress (2020) by Anne Enright from the perspective of a twofold notion of literary mapping: firstly, the author’s role as a cartographer, when she adopts and adapts the conventions of Bildungsroman to draw the outline of a life and when the lexicon chosen for this task is imbued with the language of landscape and thus creates an imagery which may articulate a literary territory of her own or a geography of affects. And secondly, when the reader or critic exacts a map from several literary work(s) by the same writer, and this representation enables an additional reading of the text or set of texts. Although the novel Actress will remain the axis of the present analysis, for a larger mapping of Enright’s geography of affects and, in particular, her representation of motherhood, references to her non-fiction and short fiction writings will be necessary. In particular, her lecture “Maeve Brennan: Going Mad in New York” (2019) and fragments from her essay collection Making Babies (2004) will be incorporated. When it comes to her short fiction, “Night Swim” (2020) will be the story in focus. All these texts are thematically related and most of them are chronologically close but, more significantly, they incorporate cartographic imagery as a defining trait when it comes to the exploration of motherhood, which is viewed from an anti-essentialist perspective and with different degrees of the conciliatory.

Using household survey data and multiple logistic regression, we assess the association between motherhood and female labor participation in precarious work in Colombia and Brazil in 2012 and 2019. Being a mother increases the chance of performing in a precarious position in both countries. Women are more exposed to this situation when children are in childhood or adolescence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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ABSTRACT This study analyzed the Motherhood Constellation in two young mothers (19 and 22 years old), with and without depressive symptoms. Through qualitative content analysis of the interviews, information was categorized according to four themes of this construct: life-growth, primary relating, support matrix, and identity reorganization. There were no differences between mothers in the first theme. In the others, despite the similarities with the asymptomatic mother, the young woman with depressive symptoms had difficulty to get involved with her baby, restricted social support, and an impasse related to the organization of her maternal identity and internal reorganization in the face of developmental demands. These findings indicate the need for attention to the mental health of young mothers during the complex process of becoming a mother.

Female entrepreneurship is a topic that has been studied for a long time, seen as an instrument of economic and social development, as well as a change in life. Therefore, the objective of this work is to identify how women who are entrepreneurial mothers manage their time and space in relation to work and family to make their day flexible. For the research, a quantitative research was carried out, using the questionnaire tool in Google Forms, and the entrepreneurs were released by the WhatsApp tool. Thirty-one responses were obtained from women who undertake in the city of São Paulo - SP. The interviewees are aged between 30 and 40 years old, own their own companies for a period of time equivalent to 0 to 3 years and have completed higher education. Most entrepreneurs are mothers and take care of their own children, as they do not have help from third parties, and what led them to open their own business was necessity, making them the family income, although most, 38,7 % are individual Microentrepreneurs, there is a significant percentage, 25.8%, are self-employed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes an analysis about the maternity of women in detention in prison institutions in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, in Minas Gerais. Based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with professionals from two exclusively female units - the Estêvão Pinto Penitentiary Complex and the Center for Reference to Pregnant Women Deprived of Liberty - in the years 2017 and 2018, it seeks to understand the perception of these professionals about the experience of women mothers in prison. As a result, both institutional discourses and prison routines take the form of condemnation and punishment directed at those women who deviated from the ideal of motherhood present in our culture: that is, the mother entirely devoted to the life of her sons and daughters. In this sense, this paper deals with an ideal of maternity present in our society, and its contradiction: criminal mothers. Whether they are prevented from exercising their motherhood by the prison walls, or punished together with their sons and daughters in prison, imprisoned women mothers are judged beyond the infractions committed within the scope of the Justice System. It is, therefore, these convictions that this article deals with, mediated by the voices of other women: the employees of the prison institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychoanalytic theory postulates that the emotional foundations of eating disorders (EDs) rest in the early mother-daughter relationship. This qualitative study aimed to investigate the meanings attributed by mothers of patients with anorexia and bulimia to the experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, puerperium, and basic care provided to their daughters in the first years of life. Participants included 7 mothers whose daughters were being treated in a specialized service for EDs. Data were collected by open interviews and organized into categories according to reflexive thematic analysis. Results were discussed in light of Winnicott's Theory of Human Maturation. The experiences related to motherhood and maternal care were marked by frustrations and negative emotions, with few memories of rewarding experiences with the assumption of the maternal role. The potential repercussions arising from the non-elaboration of intergenerational conflicts inherited and transmitted without transformation by mothers were discussed. These implications could potentially hinder the emotional maturation of daughters, establishing a close relation with the symptoms of EDs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Drawing upon gender studies, feminist theory, and film analysis, we examine Mi amiga del parque (Ana Katz, 2015) with the aim of investigating how film genres are questioned as part of a critique of class and gender relations. We argue that the feminist mark of Katz’s cinema brings about an attitude which is akin to the act of listening: it does not promote a lecture-like verbiage, but amplifies a keen perception of social repetition processes. The film’s anticipatory position not only rejects univocal, closed, self-contained or propaganda-like rhetoric, but also contributes to the extremely vital presentation of structural and ideological conflicts expressed in family and social contradictions, starting with the relationships between women. Our conclusions show the profound innovation regarding genres linked to the positing of new gender relations that resist patriarchal capitalist ties.

Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the movie The lost daughter, adapted from homonymous novel written by Elena Ferrante, narrates Leda´s vacation, a College Professor who questions her own maternity when she gets in touch with a young mother and her daughter. Inside an uncomfortable game of mirrors, the protagonist dives into her past, gradually exposing her biography, surprising the spectator with family revelations. This review proposal is to analyse the film in the key of otherness and discuss the characters motivations from the meeting and the generations conflict, especially regarding to motherhood ambivalences perspective. Topics such as aging, female sexual freedom, marriage, emerge from the cinematographic narrative, released in 2021, and starring Olivia Colman. One of the goals is to examine the film using the book The second sex, by Simone de Beauvoir (2019), for whom a woman is not born a woman, she becomes a woman, since the social pressures and the adjustments demanded by the patriarchal configuration delineate the feminine.

This contribution reflects on the conditions of a deformalized approach to intersubjectivity which would be able to nourish the project of a phenomenological anthropology following a Husserlian inspiration. I first question the architectonic place of the problem of sexual difference within Husserl’s phenomenology, in order to show that it belongs to the thematic field of “generativity”. It is then the meaning of a generative phenomenology that is discussed, in dialogue with the interpreters who have given it particular attention (Steinbock, Perreau). Finally, I look at Husserl’s interest in the genesis of the intersubjective link, focusing on the reference to motherhood which is surprisingly present in his writings. This triple inquiry aims to bring out one of the directions that the undertaking of deformalizing intersubjectivity could follow, leading to a more concrete approach of otherness on the basis of Husserl’s own proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This qualitative and exploratory study sought to investigate the experience of women who had a new experience of motherhood after a pregnancy loss (PG) that occurred after 20 weeks of gestation. Two women (aged 24 and 27) participated in this research, and they completed a sociodemographic data form, two clinical data forms (referring to the deceased baby and the subsequent child), and a semi-structured interview about the new experience of motherhood after experiencing the PG. Through content analysis of the interviews, it was possible to verify that the PG experience was characterized as a traumatic event, establishing a melancholic reaction in women in the face of this loss. The impact of PG on the emotional investment in the new pregnancy and the relationship with the subsequent child was also found. It is considered necessary to highlight this phenomenon, reducing its invisibility, by developing interventions to assist in the management of these pregnant women, enabling adequate reception and sensitive listening to their pain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The population aging is a demographic reality in the whole world. This scenario demands attention to health issues which affect the over sixty-year-old population. In this perspective, the Alzheimer's Disease (AD) stands out because of its alarming prognostics and for being a neurodegenerative disease without cure (MC Made; Bateman, 2017). In order to emphasize what happens in the interaction with people living with AD and not only highlight the language deficits, this article seeks to analyze the oral narratives that emerge in an interaction with a person diagnosed with the disease. The qualitative interviews (Mishler, 1986), the model of narrative's dimensions advocated by Ochs and Capps (2001), and the model of analysis' blades from Biar, Orton and Bastos (2021) constitute the theoretical-methodological apparatus to investigate the processes of meaning construction and the emergence of discourses about the mother's role in the narrative. In order to do that, we also based ourselves in the Goffman's (1974) concept of frames. The results point, even with the difficulties caused by the disease, the participant was able to keep active in the interaction, bringing recurrent discourses in the society which she is part of and demonstrating her positioning in relation to her conception of motherhood, by the frame "the son is from the mother". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following article analyzes El último Verano by Amparo Dávila. The article aims to demonstrate that this text presents a questioning of the social mandates of motherhood, which subjugate women to the point of emotionally destabilizing them, which would produce the social subject of the "non-normative mother". Moreover, we seek to analyze the way in which the fantastic becomes a discursive tool to develop this questioning. In this sense, the fantastic becomes an interpretive key to reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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