Maternar la discapacidad. Ética del cuidado y construcción de justicia en San Luis Potosí, México

Abstract

Rough recovering the experiences of mothers of children with disabilities, this paper exposes the process of building an ethics of care opposed to the reactionary ethics of care. Based on the definition of both territories, knowledge of care is deployed from the collectivity, justice and women's rights. From the experience of the Potosinas Caregivers Collective, exercises of denunciation and construction of justice are recovered, showing the scenarios of invisibility and revictimization faced by caregiver mothers and their children. The analytical view leads to propose an ethical and political panorama, since the violence of this reactionary ethic places mothers in a disadvantageous and sacrificial situation, related to patriarchal capitalism. In the face of this, the ethics of care is an epistemic, moral and political horizon to promote denunciation and the construction of justice.