Abstract

Faced with the countless challenges required when exercising our motherhood, women-mothers are placed on the margins of their rights, needing to fit into the molds dictated by a patriarchal and capitalist society, regarding the processes of gestation-giving birth-caring. This paper aims to analyze and reflect the dynamics of mothering as a political act, as well as the work carried out by Doulas in line with this dynamic and its intersectionality. We will seek to establish connections with Micropolitics and their Insurgent Practices, a concept that conceives the exercise and development of subjects' autonomy, always in an attempt to analyze each knowledge, body and object, and its production of reality, based on power relations. Through Insurgent Practices, we will address doulage, a function that arises from a legitimacy that transcends the perception of the ways of gestating-giving birth-caring, highlighting how Doulas contribute to guaranteeing human rights. Today, we are in a new political moment, with the creation of PL 3946/2021 on professionalization, which is being analyzed by the Constitution, Justice and Citizenship Commission, and also, the creation of the National Care Policy Project prepared by the current government Federal. We therefore present, based on reports from three Doulas, doulage as a Light Care Technology and its Insurgent Processes in Activism and Micropolitics. In conclusion, it is important to study new strategies to guarantee human rights, reproductive justice and good living practices.