Policies of Maternal Love, Chile 1927-1937

Abstract

This article has proposed to identify the political and economic usefulness that doctors and the "social visitors" (social worker) conferred to a maternal love in Chile, in the treatment of binomial problem of Mother and Child, to the inside of their articles written in four scientific magazines, between 1927 and 1937: Social Service, Charitable, Social Assistance and Social Action. With the theoretical tools that it has provided to the historiography of cultural studies, gender studies, critical discourse analysis and the political philosophy, we will analyze the historical sources available and we will seek to demonstrate that in the political and ideological project of the health professionals and social service, this affective dimension will have a political and economic usefulness, to the extent that achieves naturalize and reinforce, in the women of the people, its maternal social/sexual role for training and caring of the life of future mothers and citizens of the country, in the midst of a crisis scenario