Toward an Anthropology of Women.

Sattel, Jack W.; Reiter, Rayna R.

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“…5. Cisgender women refers to women who use the gender assigned to them at birth by the sex/gender system, meaning the set of arrangements by which a society transforms biological sexuality into products of human activity (Sattel & Reiter, 1976).…”

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Impossible motherhood: From the desire for motherhood to non-motherhood

Larrambebere

2023

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This article proposes to explore the biographic accounts and everyday experiences of cisgender women who, for various reasons and biopsychosocial conditions, are not mothers. From a feminist focus and using a qualitative methodology, it looks at the complex nature of the experience for women who felt the desire to be mothers and started out on a quest for motherhood. As a result of the thematic analysis of their accounts, we find that some women have undergone miscarriages and repetition miscarriages, facing infertility problems (structural, relational and social) and medicalisation of their bodies using assisted reproduction technology (ART). It has been seen how biomedicine and reproductive biotechnology boost the search for biological (and medical) solutions to social problems related to structural infertility. Furthermore, the importance given to experiencing ‘grief for non-motherhood’, is emphasised, composed of different processes that are socially denied or disenfranchised —such as gestational grief, genetic grief or institutional grief— and performing small rituals to say goodbye. It is demonstrated that, following a process of acceptance of the non-motherhood and self-knowledge, the women in question redefine their identity in new projects. Finally, the relevance of mutual support groups (MSG) is demonstrated as a way of sharing frames of reference, forging empathy relationships and reciprocity networks. The conclusions highlight how the journey from ‘impossible motherhood’ to non-motherhood is a subjective process, involving reflection and a physical and emotional life lesson, that makes it possible to challenge, rethink and overthrow the hegemonic representations of motherhood generating new meanings and social practices bound to non-motherhood.

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Impossible motherhood: From the desire for motherhood to non-motherhood

Larrambebere

2023

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Have Only Men Evolved?

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HAVE ONLY MEN EVOLVED?*… with the dawn of scientific investigation it might have been hoped that the prejudices resulting from lower conditions of human society would disappear‚ and that in their stead would be set forth not only facts‚ but deductions from facts‚ better suited to the dawn of an intellectual age .…The ability‚ however‚ to collect facts‚ and the power to generalize and draw conclusions from them‚ avail little‚ when brought into direct opposition to deeply rooted prejudices.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forerunner of a Feminist Social Science

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Toward an Anthropology of Women.

Cited by 251 publications

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Impossible motherhood: From the desire for motherhood to non-motherhood

Impossible motherhood: From the desire for motherhood to non-motherhood

Have Only Men Evolved?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forerunner of a Feminist Social Science

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