La maternidad

el tránsito desde la tradición a la elección en la edad contemporánea

Abstract

 The conflict between the recognition of motherhood as a right and its exploitation has gradually become part of the contemporary history to achieve full citizenship for women. Motherhood has been at odds with womens autonomy and thus also with the individualistic liberal project. At the same time, it has been employed instrumentally in the dominant cultural framework of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has been exploited by totalitarian regimes, and even partially by the democratic ones. Redefining motherhood has also been complicated by the interminable disputes between feminism of equality and that of difference. In adjusting the profile of multiple gender identities, we may discern, within the framework of the political debate of democratic system, the possibility of recasting motherhood in new political and social terms