Maternidades: Os repertórios interpretativos utilizados para descrevê-las

Abstract

The aim of this study was to describe the interpretative repertoires about the motherhood used in interviews by women who lives motherhood experience. We interviewed twelve mothers, users of a Maternal and Child Healthcare Center, whose youngest child was between four months and two years old. Corpus analysis was performed according to Discourse Analysis. As results, we observed that the interviewers described the motherhood using four repertories: (1) romantic motherhood, emphasizing motherhood as a natural phenomenon, (2) medicate motherhood, that presents motherhood through a medical and psychological vocabulary; (3) exigent motherhood, in that the descriptions emphasize the demands of being mother; (4) learning with the motherhood, by which motherhood is described as an opportunity for learning and change. We concluded that, when such repertoires were used, the participants sought to position themselves as good mothers, seeking a comfortable place and positive assessment in the interaction.