Discursos que (con)formam corpos grávidos: da medicina à educa？？o física

the present article is an integral part of a research inspired in the fields of gender studies that approximate theorizations by michel foucault (1998; 1997). we discuss the contemporary educative process as "politicization of femininity and motherhood", a process that, in its extension, includes the "politicization of the pregnant body". in order to conduct this discussion, we have examined issues of pais & filhos, a magazine published from 1968 to 2004, using methodological strategies of analysis of discourse. from the analyses resulting from that investigation, we have spotted a movement that allows for the visualization of a wider network of care and new knowledge, defined as "good" prenatal care, that produces different subject positions; one of these positions is that of a good mother, i.e. that one who looks after herself and others.