The concept of “insumisas mothers” is not mine but of Isabel Aler, Professor of Sociology at the University of Seville that defines them as a new minority social movement (yet) but highly motivated that implies "a step from patriarchal motherhood to alternative motherhood ".
This teacher delivered a conference a few months ago entitled "Maternity and insumision " and it has become very popular on the net. I summarize what has caught my attention in his speech:
The professor affirms that motherhood is "a critical social fact" and that in the last thirty years there has been a drastic decrease in maternity rates by 50% and a drastic increase in technological intervention in the processes of conception, pregnancy, childbirth and breeding of creatures.
The insumisas mothers have taken center stage in all these processes and demand to be "respected and not denied." They rely on the wisdom of their bodies to gestate, give birth and raise to his children and he face health system opinions that often acts in alliance with the interests of the market (for example, supporting the bottle against breastfeeding), and that establishes how an adequate mother should be.
The insumisas mothers they organize to share their experience with other mothers and mobilize socially and politically for the recovery of childbirth and natural parenting.
They have rebelled against the patriarchal model of mother "Resigned, submissive, unauthorized and full of work."
The teacher too criticize current feminism, whose struggle has contributed so much to laying the pillars of a chosen and not imposed maternity, but now stands before the finding that being a mother not only doesn't mean a burdenbut it is a fundamental way for the liberation of women and engine of social change.
Isabel Aler also has very interesting theories about motherhood and work that we will discuss in another post and a 55-page document entitled "The transformation of motherhood in Spanish society 1975-2005. Another sociological vision" that we will analyze in the future.
This is another example of how the politically incorrect maternity speech It is growing every day, organizing, grouping intellectuals and experts in parenting (Carlos González, Laura Gutman, Rosa Jové, ...) and giving an outlet to many mothers (among which I include myself) that we felt that there must be something more than we saw in society (Do not breastfeed, do not raise, early day care, long hours without babies, let cry, etc.).
Personally, I don't like the term "insumisas mothers". I associate it more with mothers who refuse to make dinner or something, but in the absence of a better one, I accept it.
By the way, who are they and where are the fathers parents?
