The social construction of motherhood in Honduras 1927-1948
motherhood; Women's; gender
The social construction of motherhood in Honduras 1927-1948 contemplates the idea that motherhood is created through control devices, which regulate women's lives in terms of fulfilling a maternal role. Motherhood is supported by discursive practices that materialize in the media and social institutions, such as the patriarchal family, which supports the cisheterosexual regime, which also feed on discourses that support motherhood as an institution and norm: religion, the health system, the National Police, as a device that regulates the body of Cis and Trans women to monitor and punish. The temporality begins in 1927, the year in which Mother's Day is decreed in Honduras, from this moment on, a strong discursive work is visualized around the strengthening of the woman/mother idea.The temporality that closes the study is 1948, year that ends the dictatorship of Tibúrcio Carias Andino, who was in the presidency for 16 years, from 1933 to 1948, a period characterized by the implementation of coercive measures of social control. Women's bodies, their ideas and thoughts, were tied to the dictatorship's control. The categories of analysis that I problematize in this study are gender, class, race, sexuality and coloniality, which leads me to question and problematize other realities, other feelings, other ways of expressing ourselves and feeling the world.