La maternité et le “travail reproductif” en questions

• Main Authors: Marie Mathieu, Pauline Rameau, Lucile Ruault
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université Catholique de Louvain 2017-12-01
• Series: Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
• Subjects: maternal function; reproductive work; history of women; family; catego- ry of analysis
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rsa/2127

This last section of the issue brings together the remarks collected during talks carried out with four researchers specializing in sociology, feminist studies and history who have studied maternity in the broad sense in French-speaking societies during a part of their university career. Questioned on what brought them to work on procreation is- sues, what influenced them then, their familiarity with the concept of reproductive work, the reasons for its marginalization in the social sciences and the relevance of re- mobilizing it today, Anne-Marie Devreux, Francine Descarries, Françoise Thébaud and Louise Vandelac deliver invaluable advice and caveats/warnings for thinking ma- ternity and the tasks it involves today.