<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">O’Dougherty, Maureen</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paths Into and Out of Totalizing Motherhood</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Luso-Brazilian Review</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020-01-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">101-124</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3368/lbr.57.1.101</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">57</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This article examines discourses on motherhood among young middle-class Brazilian women in Rio de Janeiro for whom the challenge of reconciling motherhood and employment constituted a key drama. Interviews revealed women’s multiple strategies, both traditional and modern, including securing a professional position, having two children later in life, and relying on childcare aid of domestic workers and/or grandmothers. Analysis of their stories and commentaries identified three discourses: the first, favoring more direct care than preceding generations; the second, opposing “totalizing” motherhood, i.e., finding stay at home motherhood disagreeable and asserting that women are better mothers with an outside occupation; the third, a discourse of guilt. I suggest the evaluations both justify choices regarding a mother’s employment and attest to the speaker’s emotional and moral absorption in motherhood. Thus, I find a moral/emotional intensification of mothering allows these middle-class Brazilian women to partially escape from and partially accept a totalizing motherhood.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>