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The politics of motherhood : activist voices from left to right

Print Book, English, ©1997
Dartmouth College : University Press of New England, Hanover, ©1997
xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780874517798, 9780874517804, 0874517796, 087451780X
34965677
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 Reflections / Mary M. Childers