From the Ethics of Care to Dissenting Motherhood in the Actions and Practices of the Justice System: “She Did Not Behave Like a Real Mother.”
Glaucia Martins Batalha,
Francisco Campos da Costa,
Cássius Guimarães Chai
et al.
Abstract:Motherhood is often portrayed through a sacralized, vocational, and sacrificial ideal shaped by care ethics and the myth of maternal love. Through this gendered and compulsory normativity, the figure of the "true mother" is defined within the field of intelligibility. Those who deviate from the ethics of care and unconditional love for their children are transformed into abject subjects who should not only be rejected and penalized in social reality but also the actions and practices of the Justice System, rei… Show more
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