Quem pode ser mãe: maternidade, produção do conhecimento, escolhas (im)possíveis e vivências de estudantes na UFMG

Abstract

In an effort to contribute to the expansion of studies on motherhood, especially those that consider gender and race simultaneously in the academic-scientific context, I seek to question the notion of the production of academic knowledge being considered to be hegemonic between genders. My work constitutes, therefore, in an interpretation of the daily life of students and researchers who are mothers at UFMG, based on socially produced and recognized images, as a starting point to analyse the relationships between motherhood, university, science, as well as support networks and strategies mobilized in the face of barriers to academic and scientific training for mothers. These are the central elements of the reflections developed by the collaborators in this research. Guided by the contributions of the black feminist debate, especially the thinking of the sociologist Patricia Hill Collins, in dialogue with black brazilian intellectuals and in Discourse Analysis (AD), I try to analyze the experience of motherhood in the daily lives of students and researchers mothers in their insertion in the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). It is a qualitative research, in which it was used as main research technique the method of semi-structured interviews. Additionally, the interface of these assumptions as a theoretical-critical possibility allows us to reflect on the discourses about motherhood intersected by race and class and that circulate among other spaces, the domestic and the social, plus the academic and scientific environment as well.