PENSANDO A ADOÇÃO OLHANDO A MATERNAGEM

• Main Authors: Karine Inae Moreira Peretto, Maria Luísa Louro de Castro Valente
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade do Oeste Paulista 2013-06-01
• Series: Colloquium Humanarum
• Subjects: Adoption; Femininity; Maternity
• Online Access: http://revistas.unoeste.br/revistas/ojs/index.php/ch/article/view/514/1056

Culturally, the society assigns to women not only the gestation of a child, but the care and responsibility of the constitution of the first links with the baby. Thus, the research aimed to examine how the femininity can be related to the desire of women to exercise maternity through adoption, and to think why some women need to become mothers to feel feminine, while others prefer to abdicate this role to take on other social commitments, and to understand the desire on the adoption as something beyond femininity, which runs through the bond present in the mother/child relationship. The material collection used in the research was conducted through literature. The method adopted for this work development was psychoanalysis. It can be noticed that the woman has not found her space, and is confused about her desires and about the desires that society expects her to have. Thinking about the modern woman is opening a diversity of choices, as she is redefining values and looking for her identity. The fact that the woman acts in economical and/or familiar fields does not seem to decrease or eliminate her femininity. Gradually, each one will find their value and realize that regardless how they behave in these situations, they will never lose their essence, because being feminine is to be beyond the standards imposed by society: is to look at the woman as a whole.