Trayectorias de vida y prácticas maternales en contextos de pobreza

this paper presents some findings from a research on adolescent maternity among poor women in paraná city (entre rios province, argentina), in relation to their life trajectories. the analysis deals with the categories of maternity, maternal practices and life trajectories, built from pierre bourdieu's theoretical approaches and from contributions made by the gender theories, which that have been confronted with empirical reality. the concept of trajectories provides a fertile ground for establishing connections between the specific characteristics of the subjects' experiences and transformations in society as a whole. the process gave us elements for better understanding the problem of adolescent maternity and presenting stronger arguments in order to allow well-founded interventions capable of emerging from the social workers professional labor into the public sphere, to give a further thought to new strategies in the area of social policies.