De mares a filles

The renowned sociologist Marina Subirats reflects on the mother-daughter bond based on lived experience, and on the transmission of femininity. "Beyond talking about the guilt or the longing we feel for the mother, we must now explore another aspect: what did they transmit to us, to make us women? What were their messages, their impositions, their fears, their demands? What was it like to raise a daughter in a society so dominated by men that there was almost no room for self-judgment? All of this is still valid? To what extent have we freed ourselves from these models and mandates? This that's what I'm trying to explain. Starting with the deepest experience, personally lived. But also trying to know what has happened to other women, past and present, in order to imagine what might happen to them to those of the future".