Approaches to the mother figure through the narratives of femininity of young middle-class women emerging in Lima

This article describes and analyzes the representations of maternal figures in femininity narratives in five cases of emerging middle-class young women in Lima, Peru. To do so, in-depth interviews were conducted between 2017 and 2018, and a snowball sampling technique was used to find people who met...

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Autor: Mera Mejía, Ángela Paola
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/20524
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/20524
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:maternity
femininity
social mobility
young women
new middle class
maternidades
feminidades
movilidad social
mujeres jóvenes
clase media emergente
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Sumario:This article describes and analyzes the representations of maternal figures in femininity narratives in five cases of emerging middle-class young women in Lima, Peru. To do so, in-depth interviews were conducted between 2017 and 2018, and a snowball sampling technique was used to find people who met these criteria. The article finds that, for women of this socio-economic status, maternal representation takes a particular form in the mother-daughter generational handover. Not only are femininity models transmitted, but also class aspirations. The generation of these new femininity narratives is analyzed through the concept of heretical discourse developed by Pierre Bourdieu.