Ways of Being and Feeling: On to the Subjectivity of Professional Working Mothers
This paper is preliminary research on the link between the exercise of motherhood and professional careers among women employed in private companies in the Greater Rosario metropolitan area, Argentina. A key element of this research is the subjectivity in the simultaneous exercise of motherhood and...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Revista Interdisciplinaria de estudios de género de El Colegio de México |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.estudiosdegenero.colmex.mx:article/1108 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://estudiosdegenero.colmex.mx/index.php/eg/article/view/1108 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | motherhood sexual division of labor family-work conflict emotions private companies maternidad división sexual del trabajo conflicto familia-trabajo emociones empresas privadas |
| Sumario: | This paper is preliminary research on the link between the exercise of motherhood and professional careers among women employed in private companies in the Greater Rosario metropolitan area, Argentina. A key element of this research is the subjectivity in the simultaneous exercise of motherhood and the professional employment, which constitutes a typical way of thinking, doing, and feeling of this study group. Using a qualitative methodology and Bourdieu’s habitus theory, I examine this simultaneity or dual presence/absence as a way of being, a predisposition to a set of practices aimed at performing professional work while taking on domestic tasks and o articulating both subfields, with the consequent self-denial. I also draw on anthropology of emotions to explore how this dual presence is felt, learned and expressed in these women’s bodies, while guiding daily practices and career paths, where a sense of being overwhelmed, exhausted and guilty constitutes much of the feeling-thinking corpus of these working mothers. |
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