Mães Solo: Disputas e Embates da Monoparentalidade Feminina na Contemporaneidade

Abstract

This article is part of a broader research that analyzes the social and cultural processes involved in the condition of female single parenthood, emphasizing exhausting journeys and accountability for the economy of care and social reproduction of life. The objective is to analyze how oppressive patriarchal structures affect and reflect on the experiences of women who practice solo motherhood. The investigation was based on the following question: how do the overload and stereotypes promoted by the colonialist patriarchy, through the sexual division of labor, affect single mothers? It is anchored in the approach of oral and autoethnographic history, in bibliographic social-qualitative research and in field study, under the intersectional and decolonial feminist epistemological perspective. It appears that the obstacles promoted by such oppressive structures prevent or postpone emancipatory processes and place single-parent feminine families in places of financial, affective and social vulnerability. However, despite these obstacles, the single mothers of the surveyed section resist and fight for financial, social and emotional emancipation.