Poder (para) dizer de nós: leituras feministas na passagem de uma única história a uma história única de mulheres mães

Abstract

This dissertation is about producing and telling stories. Produce, tell, produce, tell, produce, tell... in such an intense, and intentionally mixed, way that if we play that game of repeating this sequence aloud non-stop, "produce count", there is a time when the order sound gets mixed up, and seems to change: Telling, producing. We sought this inversion, that's what we wanted; because the feminist references with which we find ourselves in this work tell us that researching and writing is telling stories, that this produces worlds, and that the ways of narrating are also important. We write and tell stories hoping to build a better world for women mothers to live in. We produce stories driven by pain, gathering the force that spreads from movements that we women, together, know how to undo and redo, in life and in research. Accompanied in this way, we are instigated to see how our stories of women move in our text “turning the skirts”, making turns in the stories told about us; this is what inspires us to perceive the sound image of Maria Betânia's singing. For this reason, writing is a narrative that gathers our voices, allowing us to move forward with the question of how to appropriate our own stories of women and mothers. For this, we made the narrative passage from a single story to a single story; this is our play. It was woven with scraps collected from three experiences: my motherhood, the Maternando-se reading group, and my research in the academic master's degree in Psychology. With these scraps, we shuffle my stories and those of the women I met, and whom I read and reread, on the path of living and researching. We also confuse the times and contexts of these meetings. We imagine. We invented. Without clinging to concepts such as reality or fiction. We research with life, and life has these things. Motherhood, reading and care were the knots to sew the stories together and make a unique, singular piece exist. All this happened, there is no need to prove it. Now is the time to put the spotlight in that direction and invite anyone who wants to come and understand, feel and share.