¿Habitus o destino? Un abordaje de la maternidad desde las experiencias de mujeres trabajadoras profesionales que eligen no ejercerla

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2025-12-12
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinarios sobre las Mujeres; Maestría Poder y Sociedad desde la Problemática de Género
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En este artículo se exponen los resultados de una investigación sobre mujeresprofesionales que eligen no maternar. La estrategia metodológica consistió enentrevistas abiertas, no estructuradas y en profundidad a 12 personas de génerofemenino residentes en la ciudad de Rosario, Argentina. Se retoman dos cuestiones que han sido centrales en el desarrollo de la investigación. Primero, se recuperan las representaciones sobre la maternidad, dentro de las que destacan el trabajo de cuidados full time, la renuncia a una vida propia o al desarrollo y trabajo profesional, y la pervivencia de la maternidad como mandato social que, sin embargo, no se ha hecho carne en ellas. Segundo, la hipótesis de que la maternidad, en tanto mandato, se incorpora a modo de habitus en los cuerpos femeninos, lo que permite pensarla no ya como destino, sino como un sistema abierto de disposiciones que puede ser afectado por experiencias nuevas y llegar a transformarse, permitiendo desplegar otras prácticas diferentes a la de maternar. La ampliación de espacios importantes en la configuración subjetiva femenina, como el profesional, y la posibilidad de reflexionar y cuestionar los mandatos patriarcales conducen a que la no maternidad se presente como elección y no como renuncia.
This article presents the results of an investigation about professional women who choose not to be engaged with nurturing. The methodological strategy consisted of open and unstructured interviews with 12 female individuals living in the city of Rosario, Argentina. In this paper, two aspects, that have been of central importance in the development of the investigation, are taken into account. The first one is related to the representations of motherhood, with some distinguished characteristics, such as full-time care work, the renunciation of personal life or professional development, and the fulfillment of motherhood mandate that has never been their objective. The second one states the hypothesis that motherhood, as a mandate, is incorporated into the female body as a habitus. This understanding enables the consideration of motherhood not as a destiny, but rather as an open system of dispositions that can be affected by new experiences and transformed, thus enabling the display of other different practices apart from nurturing. The conquest of important spaces in the subjective female configuration, such as the professional field, and the possibility of reflecting on and questing patriarchal mandates lead to the clear understanding of childfree life as an option and not as an instance of resignation.
This article presents the results of an investigation about professional women who choose not to be engaged with nurturing. The methodological strategy consisted of open and unstructured interviews with 12 female individuals living in the city of Rosario, Argentina. In this paper, two aspects, that have been of central importance in the development of the investigation, are taken into account. The first one is related to the representations of motherhood, with some distinguished characteristics, such as full-time care work, the renunciation of personal life or professional development, and the fulfillment of motherhood mandate that has never been their objective. The second one states the hypothesis that motherhood, as a mandate, is incorporated into the female body as a habitus. This understanding enables the consideration of motherhood not as a destiny, but rather as an open system of dispositions that can be affected by new experiences and transformed, thus enabling the display of other different practices apart from nurturing. The conquest of important spaces in the subjective female configuration, such as the professional field, and the possibility of reflecting on and questing patriarchal mandates lead to the clear understanding of childfree life as an option and not as an instance of resignation.
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