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Mater Amatisima

Mater Amatisima

October 20, 2017

55m

Documentary

Overview

Given the fetishizing and normalizing character that is given to motherhood in patriarchy in order to perpetuate the social order, do we truly choose to be mothers? Why is care, of fundamental vital labor, presupposed as an especially appropriate task for women?

Directed by

María Ruido

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