"Vida de equilibrista"? Modos de ser M e e Trabalhadora: Trajetórias de Mulheres em Diferentes Contextos Sociais

This research analyzed the statements that produce meaning's articulation about the relationship between work and motherhood for women belonging to different social contexts. We analyzed working mothers' life trajectories considering the social position occupied by them in the historical context that made them possible. We question the position attributed to these women; we also paid special attention to the social construction of these fields (work and motherhood) showing how they are mutually implicated. Work produces ways of being mother - through medical technologies for the health worker mother, through managing strategies for the manager mother, through the moral delegitimization of the prostitute mother. Motherhood, on its turn, produces working ways - through incitation of these mothers to be more docile and affective in the workplace. Taking this articulation between motherhood and work as a 'problem' has a responsibility effect on women, once they are considered the only responsibles for the caring tasks by the way the exercise of motherhood is legitimized.