mães desdobráveis - Departamento de História - Universidade ...

ABCTRACT
Since the late eighteenth century the "myth of motherhood" has been established. The woman
has since linked its image to the maternal role, playing a key role in the creation, protection
and development of children. In Brazil, from the years 1920 and 1930, begin the first efforts
for the institutionalization of motherhood with the establishment of public institutions. The
maternal education, made the distribution of printed media (eg, books on health produced by
medical and articles in newspapers and magazines with wide circulation), courses, lectures,
campaigns, helped to build a model of perfect mother. Given this, we analyze the reach and
efficiency of maternalist discourse at a time of significant cultural, social and economic
changes for women between 60 and 70 years of the twentieth century. It is a expand context
of the achievements of women through major demonstrations - like the feminist movement in
the struggle for women's rights; a significant number of women joining in universities; the
changes in relation to the body and sexuality. Accordingly, the present research, located in the
area of gender studies, aims to present a study of motherhood in the 1960s and 1970s, from
the memories of women who experienced maternal and also the maternalist
discourse. Therefore, the oral history is the way to understand how the moment was seized
and collectively internalized by them. In order to investigate the role that they have of
themselves, we conducted interviews with seven women who were mothers at the time, can
observe how they articulated the social expectations around being mothers, wives and
housewives with the expansion choices and personal projects such as professionalism,
education and other experiences that formed the female subjectivities around these
developments challenging him.
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