Soy comunista y maestra: resistencias a la maternalización de las mujeres a través de la obra de Angélica Mendoza en la Argentina de los años 20' y 30'.

In this article I analyze the questions of the widespread maternalization of women during the 1920s and 1930s in Argentina, in its multiple expressions, through the works of the teacher, communist militant, writer and philosopher Angélica Mendoza (1903 -1960). First from the Communist Party, and then from the Communist Workers Party, Angelica Mendoza dissects not only the history of "female slavery" but also questions its naturalization, with its specific expressions: mandatory motherhood and social condemnation of the abortion, the "hypocrisy" that governed the relations between the sexes in all areas, the patriarchal right, prostitution, the "moralist bourgeois literature" that presented an idealization of love and that condemned women to a duty to be chaste and pure until marriage, the institution of "bourgeois marriage" -defending, on the other hand, free love and sexual pleasure for women-, among other topics that I will analyze here. In this sense, we will see that some of his criticisms have great affinity with the more radicalized versions of his anarchist contemporaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]