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RESUMENEn este artículo compartimos un diálogo en torno a nuestros procesos personales de decidir sobre la propia maternidad, la articulación entre maternidad institucionalizada y heteronormatividad, y las posibilidades de elegir no tener hijos/as. Nuestras resistencias al mandato de la maternidad heteropatriarcal, como así también nuestras ambivalencias en el proceso de decisión, son formas de transgresión y rebeldía que se materializan en nuestros cuerpos. Creemos relevante recuperar nuestras vivencias como feministas de los años '90 y 2000 porque a través de la politización y la reflexión de la propia experiencia anclada al cuerpo, a la clase, la etnia y la cultura nos constituirnos en sujetos políticos colectivos y construimos teoría desde la que pensarnos y pensar la sociedad sexualmente marcada, por lo cual nuestros testimonios aportan a los procesos de construcción de las decisiones personales, de las luchas políticas y de los sujetos de los feminismos. Palabras clave:No-maternidad, Experiencia, Cuerpos, Feminismos, Heteropatriarcado.Narrating embodied ambivalence: a dialogue about our "non-motherhood" experiences ABSTRACT In this article, we share a dialogue about our personal decision-making processes regarding motherhood, the convergence of institutionalized motherhood and compulsory heterosexuality, and the possibility of actively choosing non-motherhood. We claim that our resistances to the mandate of hetero-patriarchal motherhood -as well as the ambivalences present in our decision-making processes-are forms of embodied transgression and rebellion. We find it relevant to rescue our testimonies as feminists living in the decades of 1990 and 2000 because we believe that by rendering political our own experiences anchored in our bodies, our social class, ethnic origin and cultural inheritance, we become part of a political collective and we build theory that serves as a ground to think about ourselves and about our gendered society. Thus, our testimonies contribute to the processes of making personal decisions, sustaining political struggles and defining the subjects of feminisms.

Resumen.-En este artículo recorremos algunos de los hitos de la institucionalización de la maternidad en Europa y Argentina, haciendo hincapié en la medicalización de los procesos reproductivos como herramienta de control de los cuerpos de las mujeres por parte de los poderes de turno del heteropatriarcado capitalista. Comenzamos con la transición al capitalismo en Europa y su feroz guerra contra los saberes y la autonomía de las mujeres a través de la caza de brujas, las políticas reproductivas estatales y el afianzamiento del modelo médico para la atención de los procesos reproductivos. Luego analizamos el periodo de construcción nacional (fines del siglo XIX y primera mitad del siglo XX) en Argentina, que requirió la maternalización de las mujeres para fundar "la raza" nacional. Finalmente, reflexionamos sobre el legado que estos procesos de institucionalización han dejado en los servicios actuales de atención sanitaria de los procesos reproductivos. Palabras clave.-maternidad(es), reproducción, institucionalización, medicalización From witch hunting in Europe to the eugenic mandate in Argentina: reflections on some of the landmarks of the institutionalization of motherhoodAbstract.-This article seeks to explore some of the landmarks of the process of institutionalization of motherhood in Europe and Argentina, highlighting the use of medicalization as a means used by capitalist hetero-patriarchy in order to control women's bodies and reproductive capacities. The exploration begins in the transition to capitalism, where witch hunting, pro-natalist policies and the emerging power of hegemonic medicine deprived women of much of their knowledge and autonomy regarding reproductive matters. The analysis moves on to the final decade of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, a time of construction of a national identity and a state bureaucracy in Argentina -a process that required the subjection of women to motherhood as their only destiny and occupation. Finally, the article argues that these processes of institutionalization still have an impact over the discourses and practices of current maternal health services.

Reproductive health services in Argentina are organized in ways that depersonalize, standardize, and fragment women's bodies and lives. Alternatively, women's accounts of their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences reveal many nuances and moments of dislocation between experience and language: their immersion in social and material conditions; traces of ambivalence and contradiction; moves between continuity and fragmentation; density of lived time and space; and profound corporeal awareness. Guided by the methodological and conceptual premises of institutional ethnography, this article is a critical effort to explore experiential narratives as a means for apprehending what women perceive, need, and want during their reproductive processes.

This paper aims to uncover the ways in which institutional regulations of maternal care services offered by the public health system in Argentina generate various forms of fragmentation and hierarchical organization that create barriers to access, continuity, and comprehensiveness of care. The conceptual and methodological tools of institutional ethnography are used as a guide for analysis of interviews with women and health agents from a province of the country’s Western region, as well as participant observation at regional hospitals and local health centers. The barriers identified and analyzed are related to regulations of time(s), space(s), and hierarchies among the health professions involved in service provision related to maternal health.Keywords: maternal health; institutional ethnography; institutional time; institutional space; hierarchies; pregnancy; Argentina; public healthcare