(Re)Producing Peruvian Professionals: State Welfare and Poor Quechua Mother’s Maternal Citizenship

Autores

  • Rebecca Irons University College London https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5282-2597

    Ph.D. candidate in medical anthropology at University College London, Master's in Research from University College London and Master's  in Development and Social Transformation from University of Sussex; as well as a bachelor's degree from Brunel University London. Her doctoral research studies family planning and reproductive health care in a rural area of ​​Ayacucho, Peru. Her most recent publications include: "Post-Coital Pharmaceuticals and Abortion Ambiguity: Avoiding Unwanted Pregnancy using Emergency Contraception and Misoprostol in Lima, Peru". Critical Medical Anthropology: Perspectives in / from Latin America. London: UCL Press (2019), and "Religious Condemnation of Abortion Emergency Oral Contraception: Global and Local Perspectives on the Controversy." Women, abortion and religions: debates on sexual politics, subjectivities and the religious field. Flora Tristán: Lima (2019).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201902.010

Palavras-chave:

motherhood, health, citizenship, state welfare, family planning

Resumo

Through the discourses of financial-independence and «professionalisation» of offspring promoted by state-provided healthcare and welfare (Juntos), Quechua women living in poverty find that upon entering motherhood their full citizenship becomes conditional on successful behaviours and stewardship of children to a more «desirable» livelihood than their own. This suggests that mothering- while-poor places a moral value on women that the state uses to justify monitoring and governing them.

 

This paper is based on one-year’s ethnographic-fieldwork in rural communities and health centres or posts in Vilcashuaman province, Ayacucho department, Peru. 100 interviews were conducted with women, men and health-workers, in addition to substantial participant-observation.

 

Whilst the pervasive discourses overburden women’s freedoms, there are alternatives to «professionalization» of indigenous youth that do not require the financial literacy currently imposed on mothers. This paper suggests that moral values placed on poor-maternities are sometimes used unfairly as a justification for reproductive-intervention and revocation of full-citizenship for poor, indigenous women.

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Publicado

2019-12-16

Como Citar

Irons, R. (2019). (Re)Producing Peruvian Professionals: State Welfare and Poor Quechua Mother’s Maternal Citizenship. Anthropologica, 37(43), 227–253. https://doi.org/10.18800/anthropologica.201902.010

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Maternidades