D Marre
Biographic Data
| ID | 49004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Marre |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Marre |
| SIGNATURE | MARRE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2852-3762 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Dialogues of obstetric risk in the first trimester of pregnancy: Insights from a hospital ethnography
This study examines how obstetric risk is constructed and negotiated through interactions between healthcare professionals and pregnant women during the first trimester screening ultrasound consultation in a public maternity hospital in Spain. This pivotal consultation serves as both a key diagnostic tool for gestational complications and a significant emotional milestone for families. Through ethnography, primarily observations and informal conv…
Naturalizing Machines, Mechanizing Bodies: Constructions of Personhood at the Nicu
Preterm infants represent a medical and social challenge. Their liminal state in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can jeopardize parental recognition of their personhood and even of their status as human beings. Aware of how this could affect infants' recovery, the neonatal team enacts material and symbolic strategies that appeal to practices framed as "natural" and that parents are expected to perform. We argue that this process simultane…
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
Résister à l'absence dans l'adoption, avant et après
Between 'fetal viability' and the 'viability of families: Decision-making for extremely premature infants in Spain
Surveillance in Medically Assisted Reproductive Care in France
Beyond the laws, different institutions watch over - or veille sur - the access to and practice of medically assisted reproductive care in France. Although a shift in the moral regimes underlying French reproductive governance can be observed, ART practices are monitored through surveillance mechanisms, the economic and medical nature of which conceals their normalizing function. Woman and couples who do not correspond to these norms are prevente…
La movilidad reproductiva transfronteriza para sortear los impedimentos a la maternidad
Este artículo analiza las experiencias de mujeres francesas que, ante impedimentos biológicos, sociales y legales para alcanzar la maternidad, recurren a la reproducción médicamente asistida transfronteriza en España. A pesar de la reforma de la Ley de Bioética en 2021, que amplió el acceso a los tratamientos de reproducción asistida para mujeres solas y parejas del mismo sexo, persisten impedimentos para ciertas maternidades, especialmente relac…
From strangers to families: Post-reunion kin relationships in Spanish-Nepali adoptions
There has been a growing body of literature focusing on adoptees' experiences of searching for their origins and of initial contact, reunion, and post-reunion with birth relatives since the 2000s. However, the subsequent relationships that develop (or do not develop) have been less explored. Drawing on research with Spanish adopted people from Nepal, this article examines how adoptees and their birth families forge relationships after reuniting. …
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…
Apresentação - A Família É Mais Que “Uma Palavra”: Considerações Sobre Arranjos Contemporâneos De Convivência
Por meio da reflexão sobre os “novos arranjos de convivência” ou “novas formas familiares” parece-nos inspirador produzir uma “inversão” nos modos de definir os objetos. Trata-se menos de definir o que os sujeitos estão fazendo e mais de investir no que Fassin chama de “gramática dos usos sociais” da família. Inspirados por essa ideia, os artigos reunidos neste número permitem cartografar formas de alianças entre mulheres, redes de apoio e de cui…
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…
The reproductive journeys of French women over 40 seeking assisted reproductive technology treatments in Spain
Fertility decline is a complex phenomenon resulting from converging social and cultural changes that are governed through politics. As it has been discussed in many studies, the European's low fertility rate goes hand in hand with the trend of maternity postponement. Although in many European countries over the last decades reproduction is envisaged as an individual choice that can be made at older ages, having a child after a certain age can be …
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 …
Moldear la pertenencia Social. Adolescentes jugando en terapia
Este artículo analiza qué sucede cuando los hijos e hijas de las clases media y alta catalana no tienen los rendimientos que sus familias consideran necesarios para la reproducción social. Estudiamos un grupo adolescente que acudía a un centro terapéutico que atendía múltiples interpretaciones de inadecuación y déficit mediante el juego. Analizamos las formas y los objetivos relacionados con las inversiones extraordinarias en el trabajo del habit…
Solidarity exclusions: Problematizing kinship and humanitarianism from the perspective of transnational adoption
What is, or should be, the role of solidarity within the (transnationally adoptive) family? In Spain, solidaridad is a prized value in family life, political organization, and humanitarian action, yet adoption professionals actively discouraged its use as a motivation for transnational adoption. This article offers a genealogy of the concept of solidaridad, a consideration of its enduring currency in kinship discourse in Spain, and a critical ana…
Demographic Anxieties in the Age of 'Fertility Decline
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…
Irregular adoptions and infrastructures of memory in Spain: Remnant practices from the Franco Regime
The irregular adoption of displaced children during the Spanish Civil War, the Franco dictatorship, and the early years of Spanish democracy remains silent and unrecognised. The difficulty in recognising these irregular practices is linked to remnant infrastructures of memory ( Rubin, 2018 ). We propose that the time to speak openly about irregular adoptions of forcibly disappeared children in Spain is arriving, and doing so could be a way of exp…
Governança reprodutiva: Um Assunto De Suma Relevância Política
No fim de julho, 2021, uma notícia publicada em um jornal de Florianópolis narra o caso de uma bebê que, antes mesmo de completar seu primeiro mês de vida, foi retirada da sua mãe e encaminhada para um abrigo e, posteriormente, teria sido hospitalizada por ter apresentado problemas com a alimentação feita com fórmula em substituição ao leite materno. À medida que se avança na leitura do texto, uma trama complexa de eventos vai sendo revelada e no…
Children forever: The search for origins among Chilean adults who were adopted
There has been a global increase in the number of adults who were adopted searching for their origins. This trend has promoted the interest of social sciences researchers, as well as carry out the obligations of states to provide specialized services. In this article, we present some results from the first qualitative study that explores the experiences of some Chilean adults who were adopted and searched for their origins in Chile through the Na…
On Reproductive Work in Spain: Transnational Adoption, Egg Donation, Surrogacy
Spain's plummeting fertility since the late twentieth century may seem to reflect a waning desire for children. Nevertheless, reproductive disappointments resulting from gender inequalities cause many Spanish women to postpone motherhood and experience age-related fertility problems. For them, creating a family often becomes possible only through the reproductive labor of other women. Our analysis of transnational adoption, egg donation, and surr…
The words leader/líder and their resonances in an Italo-Latin American multinational corporation
The problems of ‘lost in translation’ are well known. Yet some terms of English managerial vocabulary, which are perfectly translatable in other languages, remain untranslated. One explanation of this phenomenon is what Linguistic anthropology call negative semantic resonances. Semantic resonances focused on the issue of which meanings can or cannot be expressed by a single word in different cultures. In this paper, based on an organisational eth…
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Sexual Behavior Profiles: The SEX360 Model
Governança reprodutiva: Um Assunto De Suma Relevância Política
No fim de julho, 2021, uma notícia publicada em um jornal de Florianópolis narra o caso de uma bebê que, antes mesmo de completar seu primeiro mês de vida, foi retirada da sua mãe e encaminhada para um abrigo e, posteriormente, teria sido hospitalizada por ter apresentado problemas com a alimentação feita com fórmula em substituição ao leite materno. À medida que se avança na leitura do texto, uma trama complexa de eventos vai sendo revelada e no…
On Reproductive Work in Spain: Transnational Adoption, Egg Donation, Surrogacy
Spain's plummeting fertility since the late twentieth century may seem to reflect a waning desire for children. Nevertheless, reproductive disappointments resulting from gender inequalities cause many Spanish women to postpone motherhood and experience age-related fertility problems. For them, creating a family often becomes possible only through the reproductive labor of other women. Our analysis of transnational adoption, egg donation, and surr…
How (not) to talk about adoption: On communicative vigilance in Spain
This chapter was written with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness R+D Project “Adoptions and fosterages in Spain: tracing challenges, opportunities and problems in social and family lives of children and adolescents†(CSO2012-39593-C02-01), IP Diana Marre
To kin a transnationally adopted child in Norway and Spain: The achievement of resemblances and belonging
Transnational adoption has become a major means for involuntarily childless people to become a family, and for people who do not want to go through the 'normal' procedures to obtain a child. In this paper we present a comparative analysis of some pertinent features pertaining to the understanding of kinship that arise out of the practice of transnational adoption in Norway and Spain. For a variety of reasons, these two countries have achieved a l…
"La regulación política de la familia. Ideología, desigualdad y género en el "Plan Integral de Apoyo a la Familia
This article reflects on the ideological components underlying public policies affecting the family and their meaning in the context in which they are activated. It analyzes the "Comprehensive Family Support Plan 2014-2017. Working Draft", prepared by the Spanish government. In the current phase of reactivation of neoliberal policies, the family is expected to strengthen its functions of protection and care for its members, in correspondence with…
Homework' and transnational adoption screening in Spain: The Co-Production of Home and Family
We use the transnational adoption screening process as a lens for examining the co-production of the home and the family in Spain. We propose the term 'homework' to describe the efforts of adoption applicants toperforman appropriate home and thus receive approval to adopt. The transnational adoption screening process is a key site of state-individual interaction for communicating a set of classed, gendered norms. Through that process, participant…
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…
Social relationships in children from intercountry adoption
Demographic Anxieties in the Age of 'Fertility Decline
Irregular adoptions and infrastructures of memory in Spain: Remnant practices from the Franco Regime
The irregular adoption of displaced children during the Spanish Civil War, the Franco dictatorship, and the early years of Spanish democracy remains silent and unrecognised. The difficulty in recognising these irregular practices is linked to remnant infrastructures of memory ( Rubin, 2018 ). We propose that the time to speak openly about irregular adoptions of forcibly disappeared children in Spain is arriving, and doing so could be a way of exp…
Children forever: The search for origins among Chilean adults who were adopted
There has been a global increase in the number of adults who were adopted searching for their origins. This trend has promoted the interest of social sciences researchers, as well as carry out the obligations of states to provide specialized services. In this article, we present some results from the first qualitative study that explores the experiences of some Chilean adults who were adopted and searched for their origins in Chile through the Na…
From strangers to families: Post-reunion kin relationships in Spanish-Nepali adoptions
There has been a growing body of literature focusing on adoptees' experiences of searching for their origins and of initial contact, reunion, and post-reunion with birth relatives since the 2000s. However, the subsequent relationships that develop (or do not develop) have been less explored. Drawing on research with Spanish adopted people from Nepal, this article examines how adoptees and their birth families forge relationships after reuniting. …
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…
The reproductive journeys of French women over 40 seeking assisted reproductive technology treatments in Spain
Fertility decline is a complex phenomenon resulting from converging social and cultural changes that are governed through politics. As it has been discussed in many studies, the European's low fertility rate goes hand in hand with the trend of maternity postponement. Although in many European countries over the last decades reproduction is envisaged as an individual choice that can be made at older ages, having a child after a certain age can be …
The words leader/líder and their resonances in an Italo-Latin American multinational corporation
The problems of ‘lost in translation’ are well known. Yet some terms of English managerial vocabulary, which are perfectly translatable in other languages, remain untranslated. One explanation of this phenomenon is what Linguistic anthropology call negative semantic resonances. Semantic resonances focused on the issue of which meanings can or cannot be expressed by a single word in different cultures. In this paper, based on an organisational eth…
Étrangers dans leur ville: Les jeunes issus de l’adoption internationale à Barcelone
Les jeunes issus de l'adoption internationale, en Catalogne, convoquent de manière paradoxale la figure de l'étranger décrite par Simmel : à la fois proches et lointains ; semblables pour avoir vécu la majeure partie de leur vie au sein de la population dont leurs parents sont originaires et pourtant souvent considérés comme différents. En effet, bien qu'ils soient pleinement citoyens du lieu où ils ont grandi, bon nombre d'entre eux ne sont pas …
Attachment and adaptive skills in children of international adoption
The attachment pattern of a sample of 168 internationally adopted children was explored in this study using the semi‐structured Friends and Family Interview . The pattern was analysed in relation to the development of adaptive skills as an expression of the children's resilience. The secure attachment pattern rates were slightly lower and the insecure attachment patterns were considerably higher than those of normative samples from the previous s…
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
La movilidad reproductiva transfronteriza para sortear los impedimentos a la maternidad
Este artículo analiza las experiencias de mujeres francesas que, ante impedimentos biológicos, sociales y legales para alcanzar la maternidad, recurren a la reproducción médicamente asistida transfronteriza en España. A pesar de la reforma de la Ley de Bioética en 2021, que amplió el acceso a los tratamientos de reproducción asistida para mujeres solas y parejas del mismo sexo, persisten impedimentos para ciertas maternidades, especialmente relac…
Solidarity exclusions: Problematizing kinship and humanitarianism from the perspective of transnational adoption
What is, or should be, the role of solidarity within the (transnationally adoptive) family? In Spain, solidaridad is a prized value in family life, political organization, and humanitarian action, yet adoption professionals actively discouraged its use as a motivation for transnational adoption. This article offers a genealogy of the concept of solidaridad, a consideration of its enduring currency in kinship discourse in Spain, and a critical ana…
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…
You don't take anything for granted: The role of anthropology in improving services, policies, and parenting practices for adoptive families
This article examines the impact of the transnational adoption research of an interdisciplinary group of researchers (AFIN). Since 2004, AFIN has successfully developed several research projects with the participation of practitioners and adoptive families and their associations. AFIN uses an ethnographic method and an anthropological perspective-which provides insights on transnational adoption, politics, and professional culture in Spain. This …
Comparing ADHD symptom levels in children adopted from Eastern Europe and from other regions: Discussing possible factors involved
Género y etnicidad. Relatos fundacionales y omisiones en la construcción de la nación argentina
El artículo analiza la importancia atribuida a la historia y el relato en la construcción de la nación y las identidades nacionales. Una importancia que ha conducido a la búsqueda del consenso o a la imposición de ciertos relatos como fundacionales y la ocultación u omisión de otros por inconvenientes para el proyecto nacional. Desde una mirada que incluye al género y la etnicidad como categorías de análisis, se estudian ambos tipos de relatos en…
To kin a transnationally adopted child in Norway and Spain: The achievement of resemblances and belonging
Transnational adoption has become a major means for involuntarily childless people to become a family, and for people who do not want to go through the 'normal' procedures to obtain a child. In this paper we present a comparative analysis of some pertinent features pertaining to the understanding of kinship that arise out of the practice of transnational adoption in Norway and Spain. For a variety of reasons, these two countries have achieved a l…
Attachment and adaptive skills in children of international adoption
The attachment pattern of a sample of 168 internationally adopted children was explored in this study using the semi‐structured Friends and Family Interview . The pattern was analysed in relation to the development of adaptive skills as an expression of the children's resilience. The secure attachment pattern rates were slightly lower and the insecure attachment patterns were considerably higher than those of normative samples from the previous s…
Comparing ADHD symptom levels in children adopted from Eastern Europe and from other regions: Discussing possible factors involved
Social relationships in children from intercountry adoption
You don't take anything for granted: The role of anthropology in improving services, policies, and parenting practices for adoptive families
This article examines the impact of the transnational adoption research of an interdisciplinary group of researchers (AFIN). Since 2004, AFIN has successfully developed several research projects with the participation of practitioners and adoptive families and their associations. AFIN uses an ethnographic method and an anthropological perspective-which provides insights on transnational adoption, politics, and professional culture in Spain. This …
How (not) to talk about adoption: On communicative vigilance in Spain
This chapter was written with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness R+D Project “Adoptions and fosterages in Spain: tracing challenges, opportunities and problems in social and family lives of children and adolescents†(CSO2012-39593-C02-01), IP Diana Marre
Étrangers dans leur ville: Les jeunes issus de l’adoption internationale à Barcelone
Les jeunes issus de l'adoption internationale, en Catalogne, convoquent de manière paradoxale la figure de l'étranger décrite par Simmel : à la fois proches et lointains ; semblables pour avoir vécu la majeure partie de leur vie au sein de la population dont leurs parents sont originaires et pourtant souvent considérés comme différents. En effet, bien qu'ils soient pleinement citoyens du lieu où ils ont grandi, bon nombre d'entre eux ne sont pas …
"La regulación política de la familia. Ideología, desigualdad y género en el "Plan Integral de Apoyo a la Familia
This article reflects on the ideological components underlying public policies affecting the family and their meaning in the context in which they are activated. It analyzes the "Comprehensive Family Support Plan 2014-2017. Working Draft", prepared by the Spanish government. In the current phase of reactivation of neoliberal policies, the family is expected to strengthen its functions of protection and care for its members, in correspondence with…
The words leader/líder and their resonances in an Italo-Latin American multinational corporation
The problems of ‘lost in translation’ are well known. Yet some terms of English managerial vocabulary, which are perfectly translatable in other languages, remain untranslated. One explanation of this phenomenon is what Linguistic anthropology call negative semantic resonances. Semantic resonances focused on the issue of which meanings can or cannot be expressed by a single word in different cultures. In this paper, based on an organisational eth…
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Sexual Behavior Profiles: The SEX360 Model
Homework' and transnational adoption screening in Spain: The Co-Production of Home and Family
We use the transnational adoption screening process as a lens for examining the co-production of the home and the family in Spain. We propose the term 'homework' to describe the efforts of adoption applicants toperforman appropriate home and thus receive approval to adopt. The transnational adoption screening process is a key site of state-individual interaction for communicating a set of classed, gendered norms. Through that process, participant…
On Reproductive Work in Spain: Transnational Adoption, Egg Donation, Surrogacy
Spain's plummeting fertility since the late twentieth century may seem to reflect a waning desire for children. Nevertheless, reproductive disappointments resulting from gender inequalities cause many Spanish women to postpone motherhood and experience age-related fertility problems. For them, creating a family often becomes possible only through the reproductive labor of other women. Our analysis of transnational adoption, egg donation, and surr…
Children forever: The search for origins among Chilean adults who were adopted
There has been a global increase in the number of adults who were adopted searching for their origins. This trend has promoted the interest of social sciences researchers, as well as carry out the obligations of states to provide specialized services. In this article, we present some results from the first qualitative study that explores the experiences of some Chilean adults who were adopted and searched for their origins in Chile through the Na…
Irregular adoptions and infrastructures of memory in Spain: Remnant practices from the Franco Regime
The irregular adoption of displaced children during the Spanish Civil War, the Franco dictatorship, and the early years of Spanish democracy remains silent and unrecognised. The difficulty in recognising these irregular practices is linked to remnant infrastructures of memory ( Rubin, 2018 ). We propose that the time to speak openly about irregular adoptions of forcibly disappeared children in Spain is arriving, and doing so could be a way of exp…
Governança reprodutiva: Um Assunto De Suma Relevância Política
No fim de julho, 2021, uma notícia publicada em um jornal de Florianópolis narra o caso de uma bebê que, antes mesmo de completar seu primeiro mês de vida, foi retirada da sua mãe e encaminhada para um abrigo e, posteriormente, teria sido hospitalizada por ter apresentado problemas com a alimentação feita com fórmula em substituição ao leite materno. À medida que se avança na leitura do texto, uma trama complexa de eventos vai sendo revelada e no…
Demographic Anxieties in the Age of 'Fertility Decline
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…
Moldear la pertenencia Social. Adolescentes jugando en terapia
Este artículo analiza qué sucede cuando los hijos e hijas de las clases media y alta catalana no tienen los rendimientos que sus familias consideran necesarios para la reproducción social. Estudiamos un grupo adolescente que acudía a un centro terapéutico que atendía múltiples interpretaciones de inadecuación y déficit mediante el juego. Analizamos las formas y los objetivos relacionados con las inversiones extraordinarias en el trabajo del habit…
Solidarity exclusions: Problematizing kinship and humanitarianism from the perspective of transnational adoption
What is, or should be, the role of solidarity within the (transnationally adoptive) family? In Spain, solidaridad is a prized value in family life, political organization, and humanitarian action, yet adoption professionals actively discouraged its use as a motivation for transnational adoption. This article offers a genealogy of the concept of solidaridad, a consideration of its enduring currency in kinship discourse in Spain, and a critical ana…
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…
Apresentação - A Família É Mais Que “Uma Palavra”: Considerações Sobre Arranjos Contemporâneos De Convivência
Por meio da reflexão sobre os “novos arranjos de convivência” ou “novas formas familiares” parece-nos inspirador produzir uma “inversão” nos modos de definir os objetos. Trata-se menos de definir o que os sujeitos estão fazendo e mais de investir no que Fassin chama de “gramática dos usos sociais” da família. Inspirados por essa ideia, os artigos reunidos neste número permitem cartografar formas de alianças entre mulheres, redes de apoio e de cui…
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…
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