Abstract

ARROYO ROJAS, Lellanis  and  CASTANEDA RENTERIA, Liliana Ibeth. Hurting the bodies: meanings of the paternities, maternities and the family in infertile women and men. La ventana [online]. 2021, vol.6, n.53, pp.39-73.  Epub Feb 23, 2021. ISSN 1405-9436.

The current paper analyses the suffering engendered by the infertility processes experienced from a sociocultural perspective, in which the body is configured as the generating and reproducing space of cultural mandates, particularly those configured from the gender category. We focus on the experience of people with an infertility condition, seeking to understand the sociocultural logics that are woven from an infertile body in which meanings are imposed and are based on the cultural construction of the sexual difference imposed on the bodies. The information exposed was obtained through in-depth interviews with women and men under suspicion and/or confirmed diagnosis of infertility. The results exposed the body as a framework for primary reflection, since it is questioned as a responsible actor for not fulfilling the social constructions to which it is enrolled, revealing a centrality in the biological and socio-cultural constructions. The approach achieved presents infertility as a phenomenon of suffering. It is considered appropriate to mention that the subject of analysis submitted in this text was part of the results presented in a doctoral thesis entitled: “Infertility, social construction of a disease”.

Keywords : bodies; infertility; suffering; gender mandates.

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