Habitus or destiny? An approach to motherhood based on the experiences of professional women who choose not to follow this path.

This article presents the results of an investigation about professional women who choose not to be engaged with nurturing. The methodological strategy consisted of open and unstructured interviews with 12 female individuals living in the city of Rosario, Argentina. In this paper, two aspects, that...

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Autor principal: Corsetti, Tania
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. UNR 2025
Materias:
Estudios de género
trabajo
maternidad
promoción profesional
feminidad
Gender studies
Work
Motherhood
Professional promotion
Femininity
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spelling I15-R214-article-3962025-12-16T13:56:12Z Habitus or destiny? An approach to motherhood based on the experiences of professional women who choose not to follow this path. ¿Habitus o destino? Un abordaje de la maternidad desde las experiencias de mujeres trabajadoras profesionales que eligen no ejercerla Corsetti, Tania Estudios de género trabajo maternidad promoción profesional feminidad Gender studies Work Motherhood Professional promotion Femininity This article presents the results of an investigation about professional women who choose not to be engaged with nurturing. The methodological strategy consisted of open and unstructured interviews with 12 female individuals living in the city of Rosario, Argentina. In this paper, two aspects, that have been of central importance in the development of the investigation, are taken into account. The first one is related to the representations of motherhood, with some distinguished characteristics, such as full-time care work, the renunciation of personal life or professional development, and the fulfillment of motherhood mandate that has never been their objective. The second one states the hypothesis that motherhood, as a mandate, is incorporated into the female body as a habitus. This understanding enables the consideration of motherhood not as a destiny, but rather as an open system of dispositions that can be affected by new experiences and transformed, thus enabling the display of other different practices apart from nurturing. The conquest of important spaces in the subjective female configuration, such as the professional field, and the possibility of reflecting on and questing patriarchal mandates lead to the clear understanding of childfree life as an option and not as an instance of resignation. En este artículo se exponen los resultados de una investigación sobre mujeres profesionales que eligen no maternar. La estrategia metodológica consistió en entrevistas abiertas, no estructuradas y en profundidad a 12 personas de género femenino residentes en la ciudad de Rosario, Argentina. Se retoman dos cuestiones que han sido centrales en el desarrollo de la investigación. Primero, se recuperan las representaciones sobre la maternidad, dentro de las que destacan el trabajo de cuidados full time, la renuncia a una vida propia o al desarrollo y trabajo profesional, y la pervivencia de la maternidad como mandato social que, sin embargo, no se ha hecho carne en ellas. Segundo, la hipótesis de que la maternidad, en tanto mandato, se incorpora a modo de habitus en los cuerpos femeninos, lo que permite pensarla no ya como destino, sino como un sistema abierto de disposiciones que puede ser afectado por experiencias nuevas y llegar a transformarse, permitiendo desplegar otras prácticas diferentes a la de maternar. La ampliación de espacios importantes en la configuración subjetiva femenina, como el profesional, y la posibilidad de reflexionar y cuestionar los mandatos patriarcales conducen a que la no maternidad se presente como elección y no como renuncia.  Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. UNR 2025-12-12 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://zonafranca.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ZonaFranca/article/view/396 10.35305/zf.vi33.396 Zona Franca; No. 33 (2025); 52-81 Zona Franca; Núm. 33 (2025); 52-81 Zona Franca; Núm. 33 (2025); 52-81 2545-6504 0329-8019 spa https://zonafranca.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ZonaFranca/article/view/396/426 https://zonafranca.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ZonaFranca/article/view/396/436 Derechos de autor 2025 Tania Corsetti http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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topic Estudios de género
trabajo
maternidad
promoción profesional
feminidad
Gender studies
Work
Motherhood
Professional promotion
Femininity
spellingShingle Estudios de género
trabajo
maternidad
promoción profesional
feminidad
Gender studies
Work
Motherhood
Professional promotion
Femininity
Corsetti, Tania
Habitus or destiny? An approach to motherhood based on the experiences of professional women who choose not to follow this path.
topic_facet Estudios de género
trabajo
maternidad
promoción profesional
feminidad
Gender studies
Work
Motherhood
Professional promotion
Femininity
author Corsetti, Tania
author_facet Corsetti, Tania
author_sort Corsetti, Tania
title Habitus or destiny? An approach to motherhood based on the experiences of professional women who choose not to follow this path.
title_short Habitus or destiny? An approach to motherhood based on the experiences of professional women who choose not to follow this path.
title_full Habitus or destiny? An approach to motherhood based on the experiences of professional women who choose not to follow this path.
title_fullStr Habitus or destiny? An approach to motherhood based on the experiences of professional women who choose not to follow this path.
title_full_unstemmed Habitus or destiny? An approach to motherhood based on the experiences of professional women who choose not to follow this path.
title_sort habitus or destiny? an approach to motherhood based on the experiences of professional women who choose not to follow this path.
description This article presents the results of an investigation about professional women who choose not to be engaged with nurturing. The methodological strategy consisted of open and unstructured interviews with 12 female individuals living in the city of Rosario, Argentina. In this paper, two aspects, that have been of central importance in the development of the investigation, are taken into account. The first one is related to the representations of motherhood, with some distinguished characteristics, such as full-time care work, the renunciation of personal life or professional development, and the fulfillment of motherhood mandate that has never been their objective. The second one states the hypothesis that motherhood, as a mandate, is incorporated into the female body as a habitus. This understanding enables the consideration of motherhood not as a destiny, but rather as an open system of dispositions that can be affected by new experiences and transformed, thus enabling the display of other different practices apart from nurturing. The conquest of important spaces in the subjective female configuration, such as the professional field, and the possibility of reflecting on and questing patriarchal mandates lead to the clear understanding of childfree life as an option and not as an instance of resignation.
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