Bruna Alvarez
Biographic Data
| ID | 210035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruna Alvarez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruna |
| FAMILY NAME | Alvarez |
| SIGNATURE | ALVAREZ B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9069-4573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Feminist care in the centre: Abortion accompaniment practices in Northern Mexico
This study examined how abortion acompañantes - feminist activists who support self-managed medication abortions outside clinical settings - in northern Mexico enact a feminist ethics of care. Through 13 in-depth interviews with feminist activists in the states of Baja California and Chihuahua, we explored how acompañantes seek to redefine abortion care by centring the needs, emotions and contexts of the people they support. Findings show that th…
I need to take care of myself as well”—self‐care strategies of abortion acompañantes in Northern Mexico
This ethnographic study explores the emotional labor and self‐care strategies of feminist abortion acompañantes in Northern Mexico. Operating within restrictive legal environments, acompañantes provide crucial support for self‐managed medication abortions (SMAs), engaging in significant, often invisible, emotional labor. Acompañantes need to balance activism with paid employment and family life, which creates a high risk of burnout, making self‐c…
Between surveillance and self‐surveillance: What institutionalised girls in Ciudad Juárez (reveal that they) know about sexuality
We describe how girls aged 7 to 12 from social care homes in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) talk about sexuality in workshops that we led, focusing on how mechanisms of surveillance and self‐surveillance operate in a context in which the research framework opens up new norms for socially acceptable ways of talking about sexuality. We analysed data emerging from 13 drawings that answered the question ‘What is sexuality
Self-touching, genitals, pleasure and privacy: The governance of sexuality in primary schools in Spain
Until December 2020, Spanish primary schools were not required to provide any kind of sexuality education, and most teachers did not receive training to carry it out. However, sexuality is clearly present in children’s daily lives in school. We carried out qualitative research with teachers from four primary schools in Catalonia (Spain), aiming to explore how teachers without specific training in sexuality approach the issues in the classroom. Ou…
We haven’t even been able to talk!’: Gender norms and masculinity exams in representations of sexuality in Spanish primary schools
Through language, children participate actively in the construction of meanings around sexuality, which is governed unequally according to gender. This article examines the articulation of the social constructions of sexuality and gender with the pictorial and narrative representations of boys and girls from 9 to 11 years of age from four public schools in Barcelona province in the 2020–2021 school year. We used participatory methods, including d…
Pregnancy and babies versus penises and intercourse: Gender differences in 'how babies are made' according to children at two Spanish primary schools
We examine the border between sexuality and reproduction from the perspective of pre-pubescent children from two primary schools in Spain, a country where childhood is seen as asexual. We conducted 14 focus groups with children aged 9 and 11 to analyze the gender differences that primary-school-aged children produced when talking about sexuality through the lens of reproduction. When we asked about reproduction, children produced sexualities and …
Motherhood in Spain: From the "Baby Boom" to "Structural Infertility
We analyze the mechanisms of reproductive governance that influence reproduction in Spain through 66 semi-structured interviews with heterosexual parents. We examine reproductive governance through moral regimes surrounding four arenas: the labor market, gender relations at home, institutional feminist discourses, and the narrative of choice. We show that mothers are considered to be socially responsible for children, a fact that is key to unders…
I Want to Bury It, Will You Join Me: The Use of Ritual in Prenatal Loss among Women in Catalonia, Spain in the Early 21st Century
Prenatal loss, such as miscarriage and stillbirth, may be understood as the confluence of birth and death. The most significant of life's transitions, these events are rarely if ever expected to coincide. Although human cultures have long recognized death through ritual, it has not typically been used in cases of pregnancy loss. Interest in prenatal losses in the fields of medicine and the social sciences, as well as among the general public, has…
Sexualitat i infància a Catalunya, Espanya: Significacions Governades
Mitjançant el llenguatge, els nens i nenes participen activament en la significació de la sexualitat, un tema molt sensible a occident governat de manera diferencial segons edat i gènere. A partir de l'anàlisi de les narratives de 208 infants d'entre 9 i 12 anys de tres escoles públiques de diferents municipis de la província de Barcelona, aquest article reflexiona sobre com els nens i nenes signifiquen i representen la sexualitat, i com aquestes…
Surviving the Death of your Ex: Managing the Grief No One Talks About, de Robyn Hass y Robbie Davis-Floyd (Eds)
Surviving the Death of your Ex: Managing the Grief No One Talks About pretende ser el inicio de la ruptura de un silencio. Un silencio social que influye en cómo las personas sienten y hacen el duelo de la muerte de sus exparejas. Y es que en los rituales funerarios no hay una silla reservada para los y las ex. Imaginemos que muere un hombre, que tiene un hijo de ocho años en custodia compartida con su exmujer, de la que se divorció pocos años at…
La gobernanza de la(s) bioeconomía(s): Un Proyecto Político
Pavone, Vicenzo y Goven, Joanna. 2017. Bioeconomies: Life, Technology and Capital in the 21st Century . Cham: Palgrave Mcmillan
Reproductive Decision Making in Spain: Heterosexual Couples' Narratives About How They Chose to Have Children
This article seeks to expand researchers' understanding of choice in the reproductive decision-making narratives of heterosexual couples to help explain fertility rates in Spain. The data comprise 32 interviews and two focus groups with heterosexual mothers and fathers. Two broad categories have been identified: couples who chose 'when' to have children and couples who chose 'whether' to have children. The results show that couples choosing 'when…
Motherhood in Spain: From the "Baby Boom" to "Structural Infertility
We analyze the mechanisms of reproductive governance that influence reproduction in Spain through 66 semi-structured interviews with heterosexual parents. We examine reproductive governance through moral regimes surrounding four arenas: the labor market, gender relations at home, institutional feminist discourses, and the narrative of choice. We show that mothers are considered to be socially responsible for children, a fact that is key to unders…
Reproductive Decision Making in Spain: Heterosexual Couples' Narratives About How They Chose to Have Children
This article seeks to expand researchers' understanding of choice in the reproductive decision-making narratives of heterosexual couples to help explain fertility rates in Spain. The data comprise 32 interviews and two focus groups with heterosexual mothers and fathers. Two broad categories have been identified: couples who chose 'when' to have children and couples who chose 'whether' to have children. The results show that couples choosing 'when…
We haven’t even been able to talk!’: Gender norms and masculinity exams in representations of sexuality in Spanish primary schools
Through language, children participate actively in the construction of meanings around sexuality, which is governed unequally according to gender. This article examines the articulation of the social constructions of sexuality and gender with the pictorial and narrative representations of boys and girls from 9 to 11 years of age from four public schools in Barcelona province in the 2020–2021 school year. We used participatory methods, including d…
Between surveillance and self‐surveillance: What institutionalised girls in Ciudad Juárez (reveal that they) know about sexuality
We describe how girls aged 7 to 12 from social care homes in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) talk about sexuality in workshops that we led, focusing on how mechanisms of surveillance and self‐surveillance operate in a context in which the research framework opens up new norms for socially acceptable ways of talking about sexuality. We analysed data emerging from 13 drawings that answered the question ‘What is sexuality
I Want to Bury It, Will You Join Me: The Use of Ritual in Prenatal Loss among Women in Catalonia, Spain in the Early 21st Century
Prenatal loss, such as miscarriage and stillbirth, may be understood as the confluence of birth and death. The most significant of life's transitions, these events are rarely if ever expected to coincide. Although human cultures have long recognized death through ritual, it has not typically been used in cases of pregnancy loss. Interest in prenatal losses in the fields of medicine and the social sciences, as well as among the general public, has…
Sexualitat i infància a Catalunya, Espanya: Significacions Governades
Mitjançant el llenguatge, els nens i nenes participen activament en la significació de la sexualitat, un tema molt sensible a occident governat de manera diferencial segons edat i gènere. A partir de l'anàlisi de les narratives de 208 infants d'entre 9 i 12 anys de tres escoles públiques de diferents municipis de la província de Barcelona, aquest article reflexiona sobre com els nens i nenes signifiquen i representen la sexualitat, i com aquestes…
La gobernanza de la(s) bioeconomía(s): Un Proyecto Político
Pavone, Vicenzo y Goven, Joanna. 2017. Bioeconomies: Life, Technology and Capital in the 21st Century . Cham: Palgrave Mcmillan
Reproductive Decision Making in Spain: Heterosexual Couples' Narratives About How They Chose to Have Children
This article seeks to expand researchers' understanding of choice in the reproductive decision-making narratives of heterosexual couples to help explain fertility rates in Spain. The data comprise 32 interviews and two focus groups with heterosexual mothers and fathers. Two broad categories have been identified: couples who chose 'when' to have children and couples who chose 'whether' to have children. The results show that couples choosing 'when…
Surviving the Death of your Ex: Managing the Grief No One Talks About, de Robyn Hass y Robbie Davis-Floyd (Eds)
Surviving the Death of your Ex: Managing the Grief No One Talks About pretende ser el inicio de la ruptura de un silencio. Un silencio social que influye en cómo las personas sienten y hacen el duelo de la muerte de sus exparejas. Y es que en los rituales funerarios no hay una silla reservada para los y las ex. Imaginemos que muere un hombre, que tiene un hijo de ocho años en custodia compartida con su exmujer, de la que se divorció pocos años at…
Motherhood in Spain: From the "Baby Boom" to "Structural Infertility
We analyze the mechanisms of reproductive governance that influence reproduction in Spain through 66 semi-structured interviews with heterosexual parents. We examine reproductive governance through moral regimes surrounding four arenas: the labor market, gender relations at home, institutional feminist discourses, and the narrative of choice. We show that mothers are considered to be socially responsible for children, a fact that is key to unders…
I Want to Bury It, Will You Join Me: The Use of Ritual in Prenatal Loss among Women in Catalonia, Spain in the Early 21st Century
Prenatal loss, such as miscarriage and stillbirth, may be understood as the confluence of birth and death. The most significant of life's transitions, these events are rarely if ever expected to coincide. Although human cultures have long recognized death through ritual, it has not typically been used in cases of pregnancy loss. Interest in prenatal losses in the fields of medicine and the social sciences, as well as among the general public, has…
Sexualitat i infància a Catalunya, Espanya: Significacions Governades
Mitjançant el llenguatge, els nens i nenes participen activament en la significació de la sexualitat, un tema molt sensible a occident governat de manera diferencial segons edat i gènere. A partir de l'anàlisi de les narratives de 208 infants d'entre 9 i 12 anys de tres escoles públiques de diferents municipis de la província de Barcelona, aquest article reflexiona sobre com els nens i nenes signifiquen i representen la sexualitat, i com aquestes…
Self-touching, genitals, pleasure and privacy: The governance of sexuality in primary schools in Spain
Until December 2020, Spanish primary schools were not required to provide any kind of sexuality education, and most teachers did not receive training to carry it out. However, sexuality is clearly present in children’s daily lives in school. We carried out qualitative research with teachers from four primary schools in Catalonia (Spain), aiming to explore how teachers without specific training in sexuality approach the issues in the classroom. Ou…
We haven’t even been able to talk!’: Gender norms and masculinity exams in representations of sexuality in Spanish primary schools
Through language, children participate actively in the construction of meanings around sexuality, which is governed unequally according to gender. This article examines the articulation of the social constructions of sexuality and gender with the pictorial and narrative representations of boys and girls from 9 to 11 years of age from four public schools in Barcelona province in the 2020–2021 school year. We used participatory methods, including d…
Pregnancy and babies versus penises and intercourse: Gender differences in 'how babies are made' according to children at two Spanish primary schools
We examine the border between sexuality and reproduction from the perspective of pre-pubescent children from two primary schools in Spain, a country where childhood is seen as asexual. We conducted 14 focus groups with children aged 9 and 11 to analyze the gender differences that primary-school-aged children produced when talking about sexuality through the lens of reproduction. When we asked about reproduction, children produced sexualities and …
Feminist care in the centre: Abortion accompaniment practices in Northern Mexico
This study examined how abortion acompañantes - feminist activists who support self-managed medication abortions outside clinical settings - in northern Mexico enact a feminist ethics of care. Through 13 in-depth interviews with feminist activists in the states of Baja California and Chihuahua, we explored how acompañantes seek to redefine abortion care by centring the needs, emotions and contexts of the people they support. Findings show that th…
I need to take care of myself as well”—self‐care strategies of abortion acompañantes in Northern Mexico
This ethnographic study explores the emotional labor and self‐care strategies of feminist abortion acompañantes in Northern Mexico. Operating within restrictive legal environments, acompañantes provide crucial support for self‐managed medication abortions (SMAs), engaging in significant, often invisible, emotional labor. Acompañantes need to balance activism with paid employment and family life, which creates a high risk of burnout, making self‐c…
Between surveillance and self‐surveillance: What institutionalised girls in Ciudad Juárez (reveal that they) know about sexuality
We describe how girls aged 7 to 12 from social care homes in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) talk about sexuality in workshops that we led, focusing on how mechanisms of surveillance and self‐surveillance operate in a context in which the research framework opens up new norms for socially acceptable ways of talking about sexuality. We analysed data emerging from 13 drawings that answered the question ‘What is sexuality
Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Demography (4 works) · Abortion (3 works) · Human sexuality (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Pregnancy (3 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (3 works)