The Politics of Motherhood : Activist Voices From Left to Right

Preface : From The Kitchen Table -- Introduction. Tradition Unbound : Radical Mothers In International Perspective / Annelise Orleck -- Environmental Activism. Overview : Environmental Justice -- What Is Your Wife Trying To Do - Shut Down The Chemical Industry? : The Housewives Of Love Canal - An Interview With Lois Gibbs -- A Mother's Battle For Environmental Justice / Alexis Jetter -- So Let It Start With Me - An Interview With Patsy Ruth Oliver -- Sometimes The Road Gets Lonely / Dollie Burwell -- The River Has Been Crossed : Wangari Maathai And The Mothers Of The Green Belt Movement - An Interview With Wangari Maathai -- Reclaiming Culture And The Land : Motherhood And The Politics Of Sustaining Community - An Interview With Winona Laduke -- Subsistence Struggles. Overview : Mothers And The Politics Of Feeding Hungry Children -- A Spontaneous Welfare Rights Protest By Politically Inactive Mothers : A Daughter's Reflection / Mary M. Childers -- If It Wasn't For You, I'd Have Shoes For My Children : The Political Education Of Las Vegas Welfare Mothers / Annelise Orleck -- (cont.) I Got To Dreamin' - An Interview With Ruby Duncan -- Chinese Mothers In New York City's New Sweatshops / Xiaolan Bao -- Overview : Mothers And The State -- Motherhood And The Politics Of Women's Resistance : Israeli Women Organizing For Peace / Simona Sharoni -- Palestinian Motherhood And Political Activism On The West Bank And Gaza Strip / Reama Hammami -- Raped Brides And Steadfast Mothers : Appropriations Of Palestinian Motherhood / Carol Bardenstein -- Making A Spectacle : The Mothers Of The Plaza De Mayo / Diana Taylor -- Alicia Partnoy : A Portrait -- Six Days : Some Rememberings / Grace Paley -- Naked Mothers And Maternal Sexuality : Some Reactions To The Aba Women's War / Temma Kaplan -- Nationalist Motherhood. Overview : Good Motherhood As Patriotism : Mothers On The Right -- Motherhood And Politics On The Far Right / Claudia Koonz -- Mothers In Race-hate Movements / Kathleen Blee -- Skingirl Mothers : From Thelma And Louise To Ozzie And Harriet / Kathy Dobie -- Housewives And Motherist Politics In The New Italy / Annelise Orleck -- Redefining Motherhood : Technologies And Sexualities. Overview : Redefining Motherhood Through Technologies And Sexualities -- (cont.) Waiting In The Wings : Reflections On A Radical Motherhood / Cherríe Moraga -- Lesbian Motherhood And Other Small Acts Of Resistance / Linda Mulley -- Commercializing Motherhood / Rita Arditti -- Mothers And Disappearing Daughters : Sex Determination Tests In India / Madhu Kishwar -- Reflections On Feminism And Motherhood. Overview : The Uneasy Relationship Between Motherhood And Feminism -- Feminism At The Maternal Divide : A Diary / Marianne Hirsch -- Rethinking Maternal Politics / Sara Ruddick. Edited By Alexis Jetter, Annelise Orleck, And Diana Taylor. Includes Bibliographical References.