Stratified maternity in the barrio: Mothers and children in Argentine social programs

• Autores: Llobet, Valeria Silvana; Milanich, Nara
• Año de publicación: 2018
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: parte de libro
• Materia: MATERNALISM; CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS; CHILDHOOD POLITICS; INEQUALITY
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Are feminist goals and children's rights necessarily at odds? Diverse fields of academic practice have tended to respond in the affirmative. Scholarship ranging from the gender and development literature to feminist scholarship on carework and reproductive labor emphasize the tension between women and children embedded in social policy design, in which children represent a burden of care for their mothers. As feminists have noted, historical child welfare practices, and more recently the rhetoric of the "best interests of the child," have often undermined the interests of women. The children's rights literature has paid little attention to women's interests, which renders them invisible or, worse, actively obfuscates them, by treating women only as mothers. Feminists have noted how certain children's rights approaches emphasize the practical contradiction between children's care and women's autonomy and how certain child's rights approaches lead to anti-feminist postures.
Fil: Llobet, Valeria Silvana. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Humanidades. Centro de Estudios Desigualdades, Sujetos e Instituciones; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Milanich, Nara. Barnard College; Estados Unidos