More than mothers: changing intimacies and relationships among low-income women in Chile

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dc.contributor.authorMurray, Marjorie
dc.contributor.authorTizzoni, Constanza
dc.contributor.authorHerraz, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorTapia, Daniela
dc.contributor.authorValdivieso, Sofia
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T17:12:04Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T17:12:04Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractIn Chile, low-income women who are mothers are confronted daily with a normative ideal that exacerbates them as caregivers, together with public demands and social policies that value their hyper-rationality and hyper-austerity in the management of their families. This emphasis on their reproductive roles obliterates their emerging sense of intimacy and significant relations. Based on three case studies, in this article, we reflect on urban low-income women's sense of and desire for intimacy that exceeds but does not exclude their maternal self. We present our findings based on three heuristic aspects of intimacy: rooted strategies for a renovated desire for intimacy; the desire to enjoy; and life outside the house and the desire for meaningful relations. We observe that these women's efforts in their search for intimacy require them to orchestrate various strategies involving time and space management, money and relationships while resisting the normative pressures that place them mainly as caregivers.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1332/204674321X16781225220005
dc.identifier.eissn2046-7443
dc.identifier.issn2046-7435
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1332/204674321X16781225220005
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/91228
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000981108500001
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final348
dc.pagina.inicio333
dc.revistaFamilies relationships and societies
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectintimacy
dc.subjectmotherhood
dc.subjectcare
dc.subjectlow-income women
dc.subjectChile
dc.titleMore than mothers: changing intimacies and relationships among low-income women in Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen13
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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