Overview

Feminist epistemologies signal changes in the Present Time by assigning roles, representations, and actions of motherhood and family relationships very differently from the first-waves. It is common to attribute to the family, and especially the female figure, responsibility for the trajectories, protection and ethics of childcare, even with advances in terms of time, attention and follow-up. However, in the Brazilian case, maternity is configured in other dimensions and referentials: from victims of torture to police killings, strong or overlapping urban violence. Therefore, in a context of escalating violence, the objective is to analyse ways of valuing the family-motherhood binomial in some feminist perspectives: from the familiar mother to the social mother-grandmother. Mothers of "thugs", missing, killed or violated persons take part in the mass media and political actions for justice and accessibility in Brazil since the 1970s and are the representations that we seek to identify in this session. Approach on relevant Brazilian cases: Candelária, Acari, pela Diversidade.

Bio note

Vanessa Ribeiro Simon Cavalcanti. Postdoctoral degree from the University of Salamanca (CNPq and CAPES, Brazil). PhD in Human Rights from the University of Leon, Spain. Professor and researcher of the Post-Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies on Women, Gender and Feminism, Federal University of Bahia and the Graduate Programme in Family in Contemporary Society, Catholic University of Salvador. Associate Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto and member of the Gender Studies and Human Rights Research Group (NEDH/UCSAL).