Ser mulher, mãe e trabalhadora:a interseccionalidade na vivência da maternidade

Abstract

This research aims to analyze how the intersectionality of gender, class and race operates in the context of motherhood, experienced by women-working mothers in the municipality of Pato Branco, in the Southwest region of Paraná. The research was carried out using the topical life story method with mothers participating in a facebook group, named “Detachments Mothers and Children”, who buy, sell and exchange their children's clothes and objects. For the construction of the analysis, the interfaces between motherhood and work were considered, in addition to the care practices that permeate the relationship of women with their daughters. Through the intersectional and decolonial perspective, the position of women-mothers in public and private spaces was analyzed, as well as the construction of social roles of gender, race and class in the modern-colonial system. Most women are responsible for care functions and housework, relegating paid work / careers to a secondary level, limiting access to the full exercise of their citizenship. Their (re) insertion in this space depends on children's access to care institutions, such as day care centers, and access to decent work opportunities that consider the care of children as a responsibility of the whole society.