Quem tem o direito de ser mãe?: histórias de maternidades não permitidas

Abstract

This research intends to discuss how the Modern State has built the idea of an ideal motherhood and how this myth operates in legal norms and practices, producing the compulsory removal of children from their mothers. It also proposes to think about how public policy participates in the construction of “unworthy motherhoods”, discussing resonances, tensions and impasses between women’s experiences and the ways in which these policies act. Furthermore, it discusses how terms such as vulnerability, risk and negligence act in this construction and translate into practices of criminalization of poverty. Aiming to understand the production of unworthy motherhoods, produced and controlled by discursive practices, this work follows the trajectory of a woman and her family, who had their children compulsorily removed, based on the analysis of the judicial processes to which she was submitted and which support the narrative of her inability to be a mother