Contributions to a critical reconstruction of the modern grammar of motherhood

Abstract

The article is divided into two parts. The first part critically reconstructs, although in a provisory and open way, the hard core of the modern grammar of motherhood, more particularly, recovers the accumulating and dissimulating historicity of motherhood, with its tensions and contradictions. The second block suggests a strategy of alliance that takes seriously the fundamental right to paternity leave. Such an alliance strategy, as a resignificant political-constitutional practice, makes explicit and intervenes in the constitutive historicity of motherhood and of fatherhood. And, ultimately, unfolds the constituent project of society, subjacent the Constitution of 1988, because takes back the democratic potentials immanent to the constitutionalization of paternity leave.