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Papers by Florencia Herrera
Space and Culture
In a context of multiple crises, an important number of people with disability competed to partic... more In a context of multiple crises, an important number of people with disability competed to participate in drafting a new constitution in a remote Latin American country. Their experience shows how the way of looking at disability is structured. Based on interviews with candidates to be members of the Chilean constitutional convention, the study examines how they react to contemptuous, deindividualizing, and assistencialist ways of looking that devalue, invisibilize, and cancel them. However, both on the streets and in digital networks, they deploy strategies to counteract this “distribution of the sensible.” An adaptative strategy seeks assimilation through a “we are not different” and “we are equally capable” response to looking. A second strategy, based on differentiation, seeks to build recognition of uniqueness, with candidates hoping to receive a look that recognizes them and allows them to position themselves as leaders to follow: “I saw you, I recognize you, I follow you.”
Décimo Congreso Latinoamericano de Sociedades de Estadística, Jul 31, 2012
Psicologia em Estudo
Las personas con discapacidad (PcD) suelen ser infantilizadas y consideradas como asexuadas y no ... more Las personas con discapacidad (PcD) suelen ser infantilizadas y consideradas como asexuadas y no reproductivas. Esto ha llevado a que sus procesos y experiencias parentales sean invisibilizados o violentados. En el marco de una investigación cualitativa se realizaron 20 entrevistas en profundidad a madres y padres con discapacidad – auditiva, visual, física, intelectual – en Chile. El entorno social de las PcD cuestiona sus posibilidades de ser madres y padres utilizando argumentos eugenésicos y de incapacidad. Una vez que tienen hijos(as) la combinación de la sobrevigilancia, la falta de apoyo y las barreras hace que la posición de madres y padres sea muy vulnerable. Madres y padres con discapacidad desarrollan estrategias de resistencia para contrarrestar las visiones negativas sobre la discapacidad y evitar la discriminación, lo que conlleva un trabajo oculto que tiene un alto costo emocional y físico para ellas(os). La maternidad y paternidad de personas con discapacidad puede s...
Boyhood Studies, 2021
To contribute to the discussion about how masculinity—understood as a configuration of gender pra... more To contribute to the discussion about how masculinity—understood as a configuration of gender practices (Connell 2000)—is reproduced, this paper analyzes fathers’ discourse about the gender of their sons and daughters. I carried out a qualitative longitudinal study in Chile during which 28 first-time fathers were interviewed before and after their child’s birth or arrival (adoption). I suggest that these fathers see gender in essentialist, dichotomous, and hierarchical terms. They expect to shape their sons’ gender practices according to hegemonic masculinity (discouraging gender practices associated with femininity or homosexuality). In the study, no attempt to reformulate masculine gender practices was observed but, rather, an interest on the fathers’ part in maintaining the patriarchal gender order.
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2020
Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales, 2019
Revista de cercetare [i interven] ie social, 2011
... Facultad de Ciencias Sociales e Historia, Ejército Libertador 333, CP: 8370127, Santiago, Chi... more ... Facultad de Ciencias Sociales e Historia, Ejército Libertador 333, CP: 8370127, Santiago, Chile, phone: 5626768412, 5627894395, email: florencia.herrera@udp.cl ... and choice in families made up of members of the same sex (Cadoret, 2003; Weeks et al., 2000; Weston, 1992). ...
Journal of Family Issues, 2013
The purpose of this article is to understand how men who have faced difficulties in conceiving wi... more The purpose of this article is to understand how men who have faced difficulties in conceiving with their partners and have become fathers by means of nonnormative modes of reproduction see and portray themselves in the reproductive process. Narratives by 16 fathers who resorted to assisted reproduction and/or adoption are analyzed and compared in order to learn how they describe their participation in these processes. Unstructured interviews that favor the emergence of narratives describing men’s experience in reproduction processes were conducted. In men’s assisted reproduction narratives, men portray themselves as secondary and nonactive characters. By contrast, in narratives about adoption, men center themselves as co- or equal actors. Becoming fathers is a central aspect of Chilean men’s lives and identities. However, they are still looking for ways to validate their position in the reproductive process.
Estudos Feministas, 2010
... Sin embargo, la sexualidad, que puede ser invisibilizada en el caso de adoptantes individuale... more ... Sin embargo, la sexualidad, que puede ser invisibilizada en el caso de adoptantes individuales, pasa a ocupar un lugar central cuando se trata de una pareja de personas del mismo sexo. ... WEEKS, Jeffrey; HEAPHY, Brian; CATHERINE, Donovan. ...
Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2009
... When Eliseo later died in an accident, Carmen and Luz lost the only man they had wanted ... I... more ... When Eliseo later died in an accident, Carmen and Luz lost the only man they had wanted ... I first got in touch with prospective interviewees through my own circle of acquaintances, then approached others using the snow-ball method, in which the first respondents suggested ...
Historically, paternity has been constructed on the basis of uncertainty. Men and fathers have be... more Historically, paternity has been constructed on the basis of uncertainty. Men and fathers have been underrepresented in studies of reproductive processes and parenting. In adoption, the figure of the birth father has been invisibilized and stereotyped. As part of a qualitative study of origins, identity, and adoption, carried out in Chile, the narratives about their birth father of adults, who had been adopted and sought their origins, were analyzed. The results show that (a) most interviewees had not thought to seek their birth father because they assumed he “did not exist”; (b) information about him is mediated by the birth mother, who acts as a gatekeeper; and (c) when the figure is present, it is usually depersonalized as genetic material or personalized negatively. The birth father omission in the adoption process poses challenges for both past and contemporary adoptions, in which birth fathers are ever more visible and heterogeneous.
Families, Relationships and Societies
Editorial de Lente de Aproximación (número especial) sobre paternidad y cuidado en América Latina... more Editorial de Lente de Aproximación (número especial) sobre paternidad y cuidado en América Latina en revista POLIS. Editado por Florencia Herrera, Francisco Aguayo y Jael Goldsmith.
Editorial de Lente de Aproximación (número especial) sobre paternidad y cuidado en América Latina... more Editorial de Lente de Aproximación (número especial) sobre paternidad y cuidado en América Latina en revista POLIS. Editado por Florencia Herrera, Francisco Aguayo y Jael Goldsmith.
Space and Culture
In a context of multiple crises, an important number of people with disability competed to partic... more In a context of multiple crises, an important number of people with disability competed to participate in drafting a new constitution in a remote Latin American country. Their experience shows how the way of looking at disability is structured. Based on interviews with candidates to be members of the Chilean constitutional convention, the study examines how they react to contemptuous, deindividualizing, and assistencialist ways of looking that devalue, invisibilize, and cancel them. However, both on the streets and in digital networks, they deploy strategies to counteract this “distribution of the sensible.” An adaptative strategy seeks assimilation through a “we are not different” and “we are equally capable” response to looking. A second strategy, based on differentiation, seeks to build recognition of uniqueness, with candidates hoping to receive a look that recognizes them and allows them to position themselves as leaders to follow: “I saw you, I recognize you, I follow you.”
Décimo Congreso Latinoamericano de Sociedades de Estadística, Jul 31, 2012
Psicologia em Estudo
Las personas con discapacidad (PcD) suelen ser infantilizadas y consideradas como asexuadas y no ... more Las personas con discapacidad (PcD) suelen ser infantilizadas y consideradas como asexuadas y no reproductivas. Esto ha llevado a que sus procesos y experiencias parentales sean invisibilizados o violentados. En el marco de una investigación cualitativa se realizaron 20 entrevistas en profundidad a madres y padres con discapacidad – auditiva, visual, física, intelectual – en Chile. El entorno social de las PcD cuestiona sus posibilidades de ser madres y padres utilizando argumentos eugenésicos y de incapacidad. Una vez que tienen hijos(as) la combinación de la sobrevigilancia, la falta de apoyo y las barreras hace que la posición de madres y padres sea muy vulnerable. Madres y padres con discapacidad desarrollan estrategias de resistencia para contrarrestar las visiones negativas sobre la discapacidad y evitar la discriminación, lo que conlleva un trabajo oculto que tiene un alto costo emocional y físico para ellas(os). La maternidad y paternidad de personas con discapacidad puede s...
Boyhood Studies, 2021
To contribute to the discussion about how masculinity—understood as a configuration of gender pra... more To contribute to the discussion about how masculinity—understood as a configuration of gender practices (Connell 2000)—is reproduced, this paper analyzes fathers’ discourse about the gender of their sons and daughters. I carried out a qualitative longitudinal study in Chile during which 28 first-time fathers were interviewed before and after their child’s birth or arrival (adoption). I suggest that these fathers see gender in essentialist, dichotomous, and hierarchical terms. They expect to shape their sons’ gender practices according to hegemonic masculinity (discouraging gender practices associated with femininity or homosexuality). In the study, no attempt to reformulate masculine gender practices was observed but, rather, an interest on the fathers’ part in maintaining the patriarchal gender order.
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2020
Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales, 2019
Revista de cercetare [i interven] ie social, 2011
... Facultad de Ciencias Sociales e Historia, Ejército Libertador 333, CP: 8370127, Santiago, Chi... more ... Facultad de Ciencias Sociales e Historia, Ejército Libertador 333, CP: 8370127, Santiago, Chile, phone: 5626768412, 5627894395, email: florencia.herrera@udp.cl ... and choice in families made up of members of the same sex (Cadoret, 2003; Weeks et al., 2000; Weston, 1992). ...
Journal of Family Issues, 2013
The purpose of this article is to understand how men who have faced difficulties in conceiving wi... more The purpose of this article is to understand how men who have faced difficulties in conceiving with their partners and have become fathers by means of nonnormative modes of reproduction see and portray themselves in the reproductive process. Narratives by 16 fathers who resorted to assisted reproduction and/or adoption are analyzed and compared in order to learn how they describe their participation in these processes. Unstructured interviews that favor the emergence of narratives describing men’s experience in reproduction processes were conducted. In men’s assisted reproduction narratives, men portray themselves as secondary and nonactive characters. By contrast, in narratives about adoption, men center themselves as co- or equal actors. Becoming fathers is a central aspect of Chilean men’s lives and identities. However, they are still looking for ways to validate their position in the reproductive process.
Estudos Feministas, 2010
... Sin embargo, la sexualidad, que puede ser invisibilizada en el caso de adoptantes individuale... more ... Sin embargo, la sexualidad, que puede ser invisibilizada en el caso de adoptantes individuales, pasa a ocupar un lugar central cuando se trata de una pareja de personas del mismo sexo. ... WEEKS, Jeffrey; HEAPHY, Brian; CATHERINE, Donovan. ...
Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2009
... When Eliseo later died in an accident, Carmen and Luz lost the only man they had wanted ... I... more ... When Eliseo later died in an accident, Carmen and Luz lost the only man they had wanted ... I first got in touch with prospective interviewees through my own circle of acquaintances, then approached others using the snow-ball method, in which the first respondents suggested ...
Historically, paternity has been constructed on the basis of uncertainty. Men and fathers have be... more Historically, paternity has been constructed on the basis of uncertainty. Men and fathers have been underrepresented in studies of reproductive processes and parenting. In adoption, the figure of the birth father has been invisibilized and stereotyped. As part of a qualitative study of origins, identity, and adoption, carried out in Chile, the narratives about their birth father of adults, who had been adopted and sought their origins, were analyzed. The results show that (a) most interviewees had not thought to seek their birth father because they assumed he “did not exist”; (b) information about him is mediated by the birth mother, who acts as a gatekeeper; and (c) when the figure is present, it is usually depersonalized as genetic material or personalized negatively. The birth father omission in the adoption process poses challenges for both past and contemporary adoptions, in which birth fathers are ever more visible and heterogeneous.
Families, Relationships and Societies
Editorial de Lente de Aproximación (número especial) sobre paternidad y cuidado en América Latina... more Editorial de Lente de Aproximación (número especial) sobre paternidad y cuidado en América Latina en revista POLIS. Editado por Florencia Herrera, Francisco Aguayo y Jael Goldsmith.
Editorial de Lente de Aproximación (número especial) sobre paternidad y cuidado en América Latina... more Editorial de Lente de Aproximación (número especial) sobre paternidad y cuidado en América Latina en revista POLIS. Editado por Florencia Herrera, Francisco Aguayo y Jael Goldsmith.
Space and Culture, 2023
In a context of multiple crises, an important number of people with disability competed to partic... more In a context of multiple crises, an important number of people with disability competed to participate in drafting a new constitution in a remote Latin American country. Their experience shows how the way of looking at disability is structured. Based on interviews with candidates to be members of the Chilean constitutional convention, the study examines how they react to contemptuous, deindividualizing, and assistencialist ways of looking that devalue, invisibilize, and cancel them. However, both on the streets and in digital networks, they deploy strategies to counteract this "distribution of the sensible." An adaptative strategy seeks assimilation through a "we are not different" and "we are equally capable" response to looking. A second strategy, based on differentiation, seeks to build recognition of uniqueness, with candidates hoping to receive a look that recognizes them and allows them to position themselves as leaders to follow: "I saw you, I recognize you, I follow you."