"Que horas ela volta?" : da maternidade ao abandono

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of a research project which emerges in the personal experience and adds to the professional identification. Its object of study is the motherhood alone, that makes part of the problematic of questioning, what are the social challenges in being a mother alone and a working woman? It proposes to investigate the challenges of being a womanmother-worker in the context of the contemporary society. The idea is to align the discussion between Social Work and the intersections of gender, race / ethnicity, class, sexuality, among others. The film was chosen: "The Second Mother", to deepen these and other issues. In proposing the debate between the film that essentially addresses maternity from a class perspective, and the role of the Social Worker in the realization of social, civil, political and reproductive rights, this work composes the field of productions of critical social theory aimed at the women in situations of vulnerability. This predetermination is part of a social structure articulated with male supremacy in all social instances and, for the law to be done, it is necessary the intervention of the representative entities of the State for the population. The Brazilian Judiciary is defined as an area of power in face of guarantee and control of rights, since it is also an axis of analysis of the paternal-filial abandonment in the relations of family constitution and its bias in the socio-historical construction of the woman. The solitude of motherhood is romanticized and invisibilized. Full of stigmas that ignore the most complex civil and social states of women-mothers (alone, widows, divorcees, etc.), it is understood in this work that the mother is not a civil state that should therefore be like this characterized. Ergo, this research aims to express the manifestations of maternity and the abandonment that exist, relating them to the film to exemplify the structuring roots of this bond of power.