Mulher, mãe e graduanda: lugar de representação no CFP Campus de Cajazeiras – PB.

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.