Abstract
This article aims to reflect on the regulations on the ways of mothering to which women from different generations of the same family have been exposed in recent decades in the Brazilian context. To do this, it explores narratives of mothers and daughters; in order to analyze what they say about their motherhood and the discourses that permeated their practices. I start from the premise that the maternal figure is moralized through ideas of gender and generation, which also generate inequalities and resistance on the part of those who mother. The field material was produced between 2020 and 2022, through in-depth interviews with urban and middle-class women, who at the time were between 60-70 years old and 30-40 years old and were from different regions of Brazil. Recent literary works, more specifically novels and fiction written by women and about conflicts between mothers and daughters, will function as a background that integrates and also helps us interpret the findings of the field research. So, in the end, taking these relationships between women, we can reflect on the current configuration of the idea of generation, of care pacts and their ruptures, as well as - finally - on how the modulations of motherhood matter in these processes.
Key-words:
maternity; generations; care pacts; conflicts; maternity regulation