Mirar a Medusa. Una invitación a atravesar la petrificación, a deshacer y deshacernos de su maldición

Treball final de Diploma de postgrau "La pràctica de la relació", dins del Màster en Estudis de la Llibertat Femenina, Universitat de Barcelona. DUODA, Centre de recerca de dones, curs: 2011-2012, Tutora: Dra. Caroline WilsonMirar a Medusa es una invitación a atravesar la petrificación, a deshacer la maldición que sobre esa figura mitológica antigua, femenina, rica y paradójica recae y con ello ser libres para pensar lo no pensado, para decir lo no dicho: para ser. El presente trabajo pretende mostrar ese vislumbre de la luz que Medusa posee y ofrece, una luz que ilumina la sombra, con lo que nos hace más conscientes y, por ello, más libres. Mirar a Medusa es también una mediación: la posibilidad de acercarme a la verdad: a propia (incluyendo el negativo y su mágica fuerza) y a la del mundo, ya que Medusa nos invita a un verdadero encuentro con la alteridad y la riqueza que conlleva, incluyendo, también, lo que de ella nos altera

Thinking (and Saying) the Relationship With the Mother

In the fundamental relationship of two, that made up of the mother and her baby, the first relationship takes place, the relationship that each mother establishes with her child and that acts as a lever in order to enter into relationship with the world. In this article I want to think and speak about that relationship when the child is a girl, that is, when she was given birth to as the same sex as her mother. To look at the mother-daughter relationship beyond judging it in terms of good or bad (separating ourselves from the temptation to idealize or demonise her) allows us to leave behind the dichotomy of “confusion-separation” in the relationship with one’s own mother and to find, thus, the order of meaning of our life

Shared Custody, Does It Push Mothers Too Far?

In recent years women’s desire in relation to maternity shows two tendencies: women who choose to be mothers at the side of a man who takes on paternity in a responsible way and women who wish to be mothers but not next to a man. Some years ago men were not (or in the main were not) in the relationship of care of their daughters and sons of a young age. Today they are more so. But, how and where are they? What is the place of the father? For babies to be born the relationship between the sexes is necessary and this is an uneven, unbalanced relationship. It is a natural disparity, that is, of something that, by chance or as a gift, is thus and not another way. And it is important not to confuse disparity with inequality, since inequalities have to do with the social and are, therefore, modifiable and remediable. To confuse that disparity with inequality can lead to the attempt to make it invisible, deny it, usurp it and/or overcome it through the law