Abstract

CASTELLI RODRIGUEZ, Luisina. Maternity and the Intervention of the State With Women who are Users of Cocaine Base Paste. Notes From Uruguay. Nueva antropol [online]. 2017, vol.30, n.87, pp.66-83. ISSN 0185-0636.

This article is the result of an ethnographic study of women who used cocaine base paste and who gave birth to their babies in public hospitals in Montevideo, Uruguay. It points out the ties they have with the healthcare institution and the relations between institutional interventions and the dominant gender morality. The results show that the State has a strong, but irregular, presence in their life pathways; during pregnancy it is unable to protect women and then following birth it is strict with very difficult requirements; reinstating with each new pregnancy processes of ailments which become cyclical.

Keywords : women; maternity; cocaine base paste; State.

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