What does it mean to be a mother in Latin America? The maternity It is different for all pregnant people and this has been written by the feminist contemporary authors.
Through the letters, diverse writers and journalists put on the table a conversation that exposes the political, social and intimate dimension of maternal. That is why in the framework of the Mother’s Day On May 10 we leave you a list of books on maternity that reflect on the complexity of the maternity.
1. Desired maternity feminist from Catalina Ruiz Navarro
“A good Máma is not the one who sacrifices, a good mom is the one who makes her and her children happier,” Catalina Ruíz Navarro. Desired: maternity Feminist (Grijalbo) of 2024 explores provocative issues to reflect on the maternity.
Some of the topics that the journalist and writer explores in the book are: the maternity And his relationship with him feminismbreastfeeding, professional life being a mother, reproductive rights, freedom and being a mother without impositions or guilt, in a desired way.
2. Germinal of Tania Tagle
This 2023 book is a reflective essay on the maternity From a critical and personal perspective. Here, Tania Tagle reflects and questions the traditional narratives that romanticize and idealize the maternity.
Germinal (Lumen) was the result of two parallel projects; The first, an essay on the maternity and the socialization of the pregnant woman’s body, and the second a blog about the writer’s own experience. The work invites you to rethink the maternity Without gender stereotypes taking into account social, psychological and physical implications that must be discussed in depth.
3. Fruit by Daniela Rea
Fruit (Antílope) is a 2021 book written by Daniela Rea that explores the idealization of the maternity In society through an intimate and political look on maternity in contexts of violence and inequalities. What means giving birth, raising, resisting and being a mother in the socio -political context of the country?
This book recognizes the maternity from a perspective of dignification and not of romantization. In this book the voices of fourteen women who replace care work as a political act are printed.
4. The only child of Guadalupe Nettel
The maternity It is not easy, it is a complex process that removes the ideals of the maternity expected In The only child (Anagrama), of 2020 by Guadalupe Nettel tells the story of three women, Laura, Alina and Doris, who faces the maternity Through different angles: the decision not to have daughters, the desire to be a mother, and parenting in adverse circumstances.
In this book, the writer questions the gender roles, the maternity desired and unwanted and social stigmas around the exercise of maternario.
5. Empty houses from Brenda Navarro
Empty houses It is a 2019 novel (sixth floor) written by Brenda Navarro. History addresses the issue of maternity in a context of loss and violence.
The absence, the desire to love and the brutality of violence in Mexico are the elements that accompany the history of two narrative voices: a woman who questions her mother role and who feels a huge loss of the disappearance of her son, and another woman in precariousness and violence conditions that live the maternity through resentment and frustration.
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