Paper Short Abstract:

This article aims to describe the transmission of knowledge and moral values in the mother-child relationship, intersecting with educational, reproductive, and health policies for women and children in the Amazon.

Paper Abstract:

Contemporary studies on sexual education in Brazil identify challenges based on some demands made by mothers and fathers, supporters of values such as that sexual education should be applied by the family and not by the school. A decolonial perspective is sought through the discourses of these women-mothers, emphasizing the need for educational policies resonating with the challenges and opportunities presented by mothering, such as in Amazonian contexts. The diversity of motherhoods recognized through the Amazonian mothering and many others, guide the conception of worlds that are culturally sensitive to sexual education and reproductive health policies.

This article aims to describe the transmission of knowledge and moral values in the mother-child relationship, intersecting with educational, reproductive, and health policies for women and children in the Amazon. It focuses on how motherhood shapes educational paradigms, promoting values, traditions, and potential gender inequalities and violence in the sexual experiences of girls and boys, in the region. From the perspective of Brazilian feminist anthropology and gender studies in the Brazilian Amazon, this ethnographic article discusses the influences of mothering on sex-affective educational dynamics and sexual and reproductive health.

Critically visualizing that family environments shape moralities towards sexuality implies that "home-based sex education" reproduces gender inequalities, contrasting with the equity values of sex education in schools, even in an Amazonian city. Two ethnographic cases, of women-mothers of young people, will allow us to analyze accessibility and awareness of public health care policies for women and men - daughters and sons.