Approaches to the mother figure through the narratives of femininity of young middle-class women emerging in Lima

• Autor: Mera Mejía, Ángela Paola
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/20524
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/20524
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: maternity; femininity; social mobility; young women; new middle class; maternidades; feminidades; movilidad social; mujeres jóvenes; clase media emergente

This article describes and analyzes the representations of maternal figures in femininity narratives in five cases of emerging middle-class young women in Lima, Peru. To do so, in-depth interviews were conducted between 2017 and 2018, and a snowball sampling technique was used to find people who met these criteria. The article finds that, for women of this socio-economic status, maternal representation takes a particular form in the mother-daughter generational handover. Not only are femininity models transmitted, but also class aspirations. The generation of these new femininity narratives is analyzed through the concept of heretical discourse developed by Pierre Bourdieu.