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      Ser childfree en México: narrativas personales de quienes no desean ser madres o padres y su negociación con los estigmas sociales Translated title: Being Childfree in Mexico: Personal Narratives of People Choosing not to Become Parents and How They Cope with Social Stigmas

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          Resumen El presente artículo explora la elección childfree en México e indaga particularmente el impacto de los estigmas sociales hacia las personas que deciden rechazar para sí la maternidad/paternidad. Luego de extraer las cualidades y roles normativos de la masculinidad y feminidad de los discursos hegemónicos en la sociedad mexicana, a partir del análisis interpretativo de encuestas en línea y entrevistas en profundidad, se develan las narrativas que emplearon las personas que se identifican a sí mismas como childfree para negociar con los estigmas sociales y defender su decisión. El alcance de este estudio exploratorio es limitado, pero sienta bases para la construcción de un panorama del fenómeno en México y visibiliza diversas problemáticas que requieren analizarse en profundidad. Asimismo, a diferencia de la tendencia de estudios sobre childfree alrededor del mundo, en este se incluyeron no sólo a mujeres, sino también a varones, buscando las similitudes y diferencias entre los estigmas que perciben y sus implicaciones en círculos privados y laborales. Los hallazgos nutren el debate relacionado con identidades de género en América Latina.

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          Abstract This article looks at the choice made by Mexican men and women to be childfree, focusing on the impact of social stigmas on people who decide not to become parents. After extracting, from hegemonic discourses, the normative aspects and roles of femininity and masculinity in Mexican society, an interpretative analysis of online surveys and in-depth interviews are used to reveal the personal narratives used by childfree people to cope with the stigmas attached to their decision. This explorative study has a limited scope but lays the foundation for an understanding of the phenomenon in Mexico, giving visibility to diverse issues for further analysis. Unlike most childfree studies around the world, this article looks at the experience of both women and men, seeking similarities and differences among the stigmas they face and the implications in their private and professional lives. The findings add to the gender identity debate in the Latin America.

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              Reproductive governance in Latin America.

              This paper develops the concept of reproductive governance as an analytic tool for tracing the shifting political rationalities of population and reproduction. As advanced here, the concept of reproductive governance refers to the mechanisms through which different historical configurations of actors - such as state, religious, and international financial institutions, NGOs, and social movements - use legislative controls, economic inducements, moral injunctions, direct coercion, and ethical incitements to produce, monitor, and control reproductive behaviours and population practices. Examples are drawn from Latin America, where reproductive governance is undergoing a dramatic transformation as public policy conversations are coalescing around new moral regimes and rights-based actors through debates about abortion, emergency contraception, sterilisation, migration, and assisted reproductive technologies. Reproductive discourses are increasingly framed through morality and contestations over 'rights', where rights-bearing citizens are pitted against each other in claiming reproductive, sexual, indigenous, and natural rights, as well as the 'right to life' of the unborn. The concept of reproductive governance can be applied to other settings in order to understand shifting political rationalities within the domain of reproduction.
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                Journal
                riegcm
                Revista interdisciplinaria de estudios de género de El Colegio de México
                Rev. interdiscip. estud. género Col. Méx.
                El Colegio de México A.C., Centro de Estudios de Género (Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico )
                2395-9185
                2021
                : 7
                : e756
                Affiliations
                [1] Ciudad Juárez orgnameUniversidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez Mexico yunuen.mandujano@ 123456uacj.mx
                Article
                S2395-91852021000100113 S2395-9185(21)00700000113
                10.24201/reg.v7i1.756
                0480f204-7982-41ad-a9b8-5cda7b9a2478

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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                : 24 August 2021
                : 05 April 2021
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                México,narrativas personales,identidad de género,paternidad,maternidad,Mexico,personal narratives,gender identity,fatherhood,motherhood,childfree

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