The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change
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Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Politicalfeatures thirty powerful, hard-hitting literary essays by women who are striving to make the world a better place for children and families—both their own and other women's—in this country and globally.
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Each contributor tackles complex issues facing mothers and society today. Whether it's a mother teaching her children to live ecologically responsible lives, a mother struggling to get out of poverty while raising her kids, a mother's response to her child being sent to Iraq, or a mother voting for the first time, each writer forges the link, the crucial relationship, between the personal (life with family) and the political (life in the world) to give voice to, and thus empower, other women to realize and seize their collective political clout as mothers. Written by and for mothers, The Maternal Is Politicalis crafted to help motivate us to discover, appreciate, and use with greater effectiveness our tremendously powerful (and too often underutilized) political votes and voices to create positive social change.
Contents:
Foreword by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
Introduction by Shari MacDonald Strong
"Motherhood Made Me Do It" by Judith Stadtman Tucker
"Alien" by Sarah Masterson
"Mom, Interrupted" by Marrit Ingman
"Rebel Mom" by Tracy Thompson
"As a Mother" by Nancy Pelosi
"Life Under Construction" by Jennifer Margulis
"Of Volcanoes and Ruins and Gardens" by Violeta Garcia-Mendoza
"Well-Behaved Women" by Jennifer Niesslein and Stephanie Wilkinson
"The Secret Lives of Babysitters" by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser
"My Bus" by Karen Maezen Miller
"On Receiving Notice of My Stepdaughter's Pregnancy" by Mary Akers
"Shown the Ropes" by J. Anderson Coats
"In Albania" by Mona Gable
"Twists in the Plot" by Jennifer Brisendine
"First-Grade Values" by Susie Bright
"How to Make a Democrat from Scratch" by Stephanie Losee
"Revolution on Your Skin" by Susan Ito
"Because I'm Not Dead" by Ona Gritz
"Making a Minyan in Vermont" by Nina Gaby
"The Making of a Scholar" by Vera Landry
"Chubby Cheeks, Dimpled Chin" by Margaret McConnell
"Mothering in Real Time" by Jane Hammons
"All-Consumed" by Alisa Gordaneer
"Playground Prophets" by Carolyn Alessio
"Girl-Shy" by Kris Malone Grossman
"A Letter to My Daughter at Thirteen" by Barbara Kingsolver
"The Maternal is Sustainable" by Rebecca Walker
"Politics of the Heart" by Jennifer Graf Groneberg
"Campaign Confidential" by Ann Douglas
"One Hundred and Twenty-Five Miles" by Amy L. Jenkins
"The Mean Moms" by Helaine Olen
"One Day" by Benazir Bhutto
"Trying Out" by Gayle Brandeis
"Good Riddance, American Whore" by Cindy Sheehan
"Adoption in III Acts" by Kathy Briccetti
"Performing Mother Activisim" by Beth Osnes
"Pregnant in New York" by Anna Quindlen
"The Born" by Anne Lamott
"Signora" by Gigi Rosenberg
"Raising Small Boys in a Time of War" by Shari MacDonald Strong
"The Mother is Standing" by Denise Roy
"Peace March Sans Children" by Valerie Weaver-Zercher
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