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Social networks and maternal activism: challenges faced by students from a public university

Abstract

The female conquests over the last decades raise new strategies both to maintain guaranteed rights and to respond to upcoming demands in order to overcome the systems of domination and exploitation that affect women in the most diverse spaces, including public universities. Taking into consideration the social constructions around what is known as feminine and the centrality of motherhood in this context, this paper analyzes the conditions for the permanence of student mothers at a federal public university. Virtual questionnaires and records in field diaries resulting from the participation both in a WhatsApp group and a face-to-face group were used as research instruments. The results point to the students’ protagonism in disputing the withdrawal of state responsibility, as well as the role of social networks in their political organization, through the so-called cyberactivism.

Keywords:
Maternity; University; Social networks; Cyberactivism

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social e Curso de Graduação em Serviço Social da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina , Centro Socioeconômico , Curso de Graduação em Serviço Social , Programa de Pós-Graduação em Serviço Social, Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, 88040-900 - Florianópolis - Santa Catarina - Brasil, Tel. +55 48 3721 6524 - Florianópolis - SC - Brazil
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