Women's Reproduction: Care at the Center
Issue No. 16 of the magazine was released Mulier Sapiens, a publication of “Infante-Comprehensive Promotion of Women and Children” from Cochabamba, Bolivia, with the theme “Women's Reproduction: Care at the Center".
Contributors to this issue include: Carolina Garcés, Carmen Núñez Arébalo, Magali J. Saavedra Alacama, Mariano Román Schejter, and CLACSO Executive Director Karina Batthyány. Editor: Daniela A. Elías.
In his presentation, he says that “Reactionary sectors call themselves, among other things, defenders of life. Their claim rests solely on their stubborn opposition to women’s right to autonomy and self-determination over their bodies, which includes, among many other things, the decision to conceive or not, to mother or not. But, just as they oppose abortion, paradoxically they defend the capitalist system, that ferocious process of accumulation and concentration of wealth that has not only made human life precarious, but is also jeopardizing all forms of existence on the planet.”
In contrast to these "defenders of life" who champion the rampant individualism of every man for himself, prioritizing money at the expense of devastation and the depletion of vital natural resources like water, feminisms stand tall. It is feminists, through their theoretical thought and political action, who are the true guardians of the reproduction of life.
Among the many ways in which feminisms fulfill this role is by placing care work at the center of the debate as a form of interdependent community bond. In 'Women and Reproduction: Care at the Center,' the sixteenth issue of Mulier Sapiens, we address this issue by highlighting and denouncing the unequal distribution of care work, which falls primarily on women. We are also interested in exploring the emancipatory proposals and actions undertaken by women, both feminist and non-feminist, with a view to sustainability and the care of life.
The various articles in this issue agree that reflecting on care reveals our interdependent relationships and exposes us for what we are: social and fragile beings. Likewise, by denouncing the disproportionate burden of care work placed on women, they identify a form of structural discrimination that makes their lives precarious and exhausting. They also denounce how patriarchy romanticizes this discrimination by referring to care work as 'acts of selfless love performed by women' rather than what it truly is: unrecognized and unpaid feminized labor.
Infante-Comprehensive Promotion of Women and Children
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