“Is there a lack of affection in Chile?” Discourses on love and “maternal abandonment” in “irregular” adoptions of poor children during the Chilean military dictatorship

This article analyses the political and moral uses of the discourse of maternal love in the promotion and management of “irregular” adoptions of poor children during the Chilean military dictatorship. This situation led to the development of irregular adoption practices, mainly to foreign countries,...

• Main Authors: Alfaro Monsalve, Karen, Salvo Agoglia, Irene
• Format: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• Language: spa
• Published: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología 2023
• Subjects: Ditadura; Love; Adoptions; Irregularities; Dictatorship; Maternidad; Amor; Adopciones; Irregularidades; Dictadura; Maternidade; Adoções
• Online Access: https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/38902; https://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/175102