| Summary: | This paper is preliminary research on the link between the exercise of motherhood and professional careers among women employed in private companies in the Greater Rosario metropolitan area, Argentina. A key element of this research is the subjectivity in the simultaneous exercise of motherhood and the professional employment, which constitutes a typical way of thinking, doing, and feeling of this study group. Using a qualitative methodology and Bourdieu’s habitus theory, I examine this simultaneity or dual presence/absence as a way of being, a predisposition to a set of practices aimed at performing professional work while taking on domestic tasks and o articulating both subfields, with the consequent self-denial. I also draw on anthropology of emotions to explore how this dual presence is felt, learned and expressed in these women’s bodies, while guiding daily practices and career paths, where a sense of being overwhelmed, exhausted and guilty constitutes much of the feeling-thinking corpus of these working mothers.
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