The experience of motherhood in the heart of "Brazilian" darkness

Authors

  • Elizabeth Tamara Hutnik Universidad de Buenos Aires - Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18002/cg.v0i6.3773

Keywords:

amor materno, muerte infantil, emoción

Abstract

Considering Nancy Scheper-Hughes anthropological fieldwork, this paper explores the personal and existential dimensions of maternal love and child death in the Alto do Cruzeiro neighbourhood, near the city of Recife, in the northeast of Brazil. The feminine subjectivity conformation in an extreme poverty context presents this group of Brazilian women as holders of an alternative emotional system, which is influenced by both local and global processes in political and economic terms. The nature of emotion is questioned, and so is the construction of short, medium and large period of time.

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Published

2011-12-15

How to Cite

Hutnik, E. T. (2011) “The experience of motherhood in the heart of "Brazilian" darkness”, Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, (6), pp. 265–275. doi: 10.18002/cg.v0i6.3773.

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