The institution of maternity hospitals and the social place of women. A dialogue from a decolonial perspective
decoloniality – gender – motherhood
The research presented seeks to provoke a debate focused on the theme of motherhood and, more specifically, on some scenarios of motherhood in Brazil, in order to think about what is socially constituted about women who are mothers. To establish the discussion, I think it is important to start from the point of what we call gender and then go through a possible path to understand categories such as women and their social places in the family and motherhood. I organized my reflections by presenting the points to be explored through theoretical approaches that, among others, will be the basis of support for this work. They will be, namely, the Nigerian philosopher Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí, the Argentine philosopher María Lugones and the Doctor in clinical psychology Valeska Zanello. In this way, this work brings in its composition, the intention of politicizing, to complexify, our perceptions about which women and which maternity hospitals fit in the hegemonic perceptions that we still carry in our society.