Abstract

This essay offers a philosophical reflection on how to investigate motherhood in women with disabilities from a critical and transformative approach. Drawing on a review of concepts such as dignity, otherness, and epistemic injustice, it analyzes the limits that have historically conditioned their exclusion as moral and reproductive subjects within academic discourse. In response, reproductive justice is proposed as an analytical framework that articulates material, symbolic, and political conditions, allowing for a critique of both biomedical approaches and the omissions of hegemonic feminism. With the aim of contributing to the strengthening of academic production in this field, the essay finally addresses the philosophical and methodological implications of adopting this framework in research on motherhood and disability, emphasizing the need to recognize situated knowledges, reconsider the aims of research, and actively challenge dominant interpretive frameworks.

Keywords:
Persons with disability; mothers; philosophy; research; social justice