CIECS   20730
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOS SOBRE CULTURA Y SOCIEDAD
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Social reproduction policies and womens bodies: an approach to the Latin America case
Autor/es:
LUPARELLO, VELIA SABRINA
Lugar:
Toronto
Reunión:
Workshop; Historical Materialism Toronto 50 Years of Socialist Feminism; 2019
Institución organizadora:
York University
Resumen:
The objective of this paper is to present the scope of the Social Reproduction Theory to analyze the abortion as a fundamental element within the system of reproduction and production of the wage labor force. In the first part, we will develop some contributions of the Social Reproduction Theory that seems to offer a theoretical perspective of great interest to develop concrete analysis from a Latin American context. At the end of the 18th century, the direct intervention of the State in a set of social-biological processes such as the proportion of births and deaths, the rate of reproduction, the fertility of a population, among others, was reinforced. These processes were, in practice, the object of the measurement of the first demographic statistics. They were also the outline of a policy of intervention schemes in the global phenomena of reproduction and sexuality. Accepting that the regulations about sexuality and reproduction existed, but they adopted different ways depending on the context, without ever being explicit, (under the name of "population policy" or "Family Planning"), the question arises the reasons for such situation. From that starting point, in the second part of the paper, we will analyze what was the social function of abortion in postwar Latin America (1950-1980) and if it is possible to think about its relationship with the population policies and economic development of that time.