LOPES, Josefa Patricya Ribeiro.
Abstract:
This paper aims to understand the challenges of being a woman, a single mother and an
undergraduate student at UFCG campus Cajazeiras-PB, based on the problematization of the
discursive productions that make up certain mothering devices. Through theoretical
perspectives of a new history, women's history, where subjects can be understood as a place
of representation, we seek to analyze the romanticized discourse on motherhood and its
historicity, as well as the developments that this historicity implies in hegemonic discursive
productions and in the subjective experiences of popular subjects and their representations,
which in this case include the mothers of CFP. The concepts will be presented and discussed,
contextualizing them historically, such as Gender, Motherhood and Female Single
Parenthood, based on authors such as Joan Scott, Silva Federici, Elisabeth Badinter, Maria de
Jesus Correia, among other important authors who work with these concepts, correlating one
with the other, so that the complexity of the theme and the possibility of problematizing the
direct implications of the romanticized discourses on motherhood, and the difficulties with the
academic flow, can be understood. The methodology used will be Oral History, based on the
contributions of Verena Alberti and Alessandro Portelli, which seeks to capture the subjective
narratives of single mothers undergraduate students at the CFP campus Cajazeiras who
participated in the research. The result of the research revealed a complex universe of
experiences, marked by resilience, emotional overload and constant struggles to balance
academic and family demands.
