AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Maternal Activism as Matricentric Feminism: The History, Ideological Frameworks, Political Strategies and Activist Practices of the 21st Century Motherhood MovementAndrea O?ReillySection I: Becoming a Mother: Pregnancy, Childbirth, Breastfeeding1. Empowering Women to Become Mothers: Midwifery in Ontario, 1990-2010Judith Mintz2. Public Education and the Midwives Alliance of North America: Giving Birth to ?Mothers Naturally?Melissa Cheyney, Elizabeth Moore, and Geradine Simkins3. Articulating a Rhetoric of Agency for Pregnancy Through Intersectionality: The National Advocates for Pregnant WomenMichelle Trim4. Different Songs, Same Harmony: SisterSong?s Women of Color Reproductive Justice CollectiveJennifer Musial5. Birth Trauma Canada: Advocating for the Rights of Childbearing WomenPenny Christensen6. Maternity Coalition: Australia?s National Maternity Consumer Advocacy OrganizationLareen Newman, Kerreen Reiger, and Monica Campo7. Caritas, donum vitae, pro familia, and Sozialdienst katholischer Frauen: Supporting Mothers and Sustaining the Next Generation of GermanySonja M.
Allen8. The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood: Confronting Maternal Mortality as the Health Scandal of Our TimeLynn Comerford9. Save The Mothers ProgramsJacqueline Ciccio Parsons10. Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS) Ireland: Supporting Women, Promoting ChangeChristina Bermingham11. Keeping Mum, Community Art Project: Joining the Dots ? Mapping Maternal Identity in IrelandMartina Hynan12. A BOLD Theatre Action: The Birth on Labor Day Movement to Make Maternity Care Mother-FriendlyKryn Freehling-Burton13. The International MotherBaby Childbirth Organization: Working To Create Optimal Maternity Care WorldwideRobbie Davis-Floyd, Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Mayri Sagady Leslie, Rae Davies, Hélène Vadeboncoeur, and Rodolfo Gómez Ponce de León14. Surgery is a Natural Birth Plan for Many Women: The Organization electivecesarean.
comPauline McDonagh Hull15. La Leche League InternationalCindy Cowan16. Middle-Class Mothers as Activists for Change: The Australian Breastfeeding AssociationVirginia ThorleySection II: Maternal Identities17. Project GirlMom: An Affirmation of Positive Maternal IdentitySandy M. May18. ?When you are coming out of the gate placed way behind as a woman and a woman of color?it?s a huge pile on top of you to work your way through?: The Latina Mami Collective, Austin, TexasCristina Herrera19. Single Mothers by Choice: No Time to Wait for a Perfect PartnerVeronika Novoselova20. Incarcerated Mothers, Mothers First and Foremost: Legal Services for Prisoners with ChildrenKaren Shain21.
The Right to Mother ? DAWN-RAFH Canada: 25 Years of Activism for Reproductive Control of Our BodiesJewelles Smith22. Mocha Moms: Lifting as We ClimbR. Dianne Bartlow23. Queering the Family Tree: LGBTQ Parenting Network, Sherbourne Health CentreRachel EpsteinSection III: Maternal Advocacy24. The Mother Centers International NetworkMonika Jaeckel25. The Birth and Evolution of the National Association of Mothers? Centers: My Radical HopeLorri Slepian, with Laurie Sylla and Rosanne Weston26. Empowering First-Time Mothers: The Feminist Coping with Change Maternal Health Promotion ProgramFiona Joy Green27. Honouring our Grandmothers? Spirits: Warriors Against Violence SocietyDonna Lester-Smith and Joyce Fossella28.
Our Family Coalition: Mothering on the CurveHeaven Walker29. Family and Home Network: Listening, Learning and Leading for Over 25 YearsCatherine H. Myers30. Attachment Parenting International: Nurturing Generations of Mothers, Children and FamiliesSally Dear-Healey31. Choice Moms: Building Community, Resources and Services for the Choice Mom Community WorldwideChristin Geall32. Bad Mothers Club: The Online Safe Haven for Australian Mums. Politically Incorrect or Reality Parenting?Amanda Cox33. Feminism by Stealth in the Suburbs: The Feminist Mothers Discussion GroupAndrea Fox34.
Toronto Feminist Mothers: A Work in ProgressTania JivrajSection IV: Maternal Activism35. Mothers Are WomenKristen Abatsis McHenry36. MOTHERS Uniting and Organizing for Change: The Next Step in Building a Mothers? MovementLinda Lisi Juergens37. Mothers & More: Fighting ?Invisimomibility?: to Make Mothering CountJenna Vinson38. Welfare Warriors: Fighting for the Lives of Mothers and ChildrenPat Gowens39. MomsRising: A Million-Member Organization Working to Ensure Family Economic Security and to End Discrimination Against MothersKristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and Mary Olivella40. Jennifer Schumaker?s 500 Mile Walk for TogethernessNatalie Wilson41. The LGBT Family Coalition of QuebecNancy Nicol42.
Changing the World One Mother at a Time: The International Mothers and Mothering NetworkMelinda Vandenbeld Giles43. Mother Outlaws: Building Communities of Empowered: Feminist Mothers in the Mother?hoodLinn Baran44. The Mothers Movement OnlineRachel Sutz PientaSection V: Violence, Militarism, War and Peace45. How to Mobilize One Million Mothers: The Million Mom March and the Power of the Social NetworkRachel Sutz Pienta46. United Mothers Opposing Violence Everywhere: Moving Up, Moving OutwardLaura Pennington47. Taking Back the Streets, Helping Victims Heal: ?Mothers In Charge? in PhiladelphiaAbigail L. Palko48. Policing the Police in Every Mother?s Son: A Profile of Mother-Warriors Seeking Justice in New York CityAmber Fatima Riaz49.
No Body, No Crime? The Mothers of Acari and the Struggle for Justice and Non-ViolenceTatiana Moura and Rita Santos50. Mothers Against Trafficking HumansGlendene Grant51. American Mothers Fighting the Vietnam War: Another Mother for PeaceMeghan Gibbons52. The Mothers of the Plaza de MayoMarguerite Guzmán Bouvard53. The Mothers of Laleh Park: The Mourning Mothers of Iran Demand an End to ViolenceSusan Logsdon-Conradsen54. The Committee of Soldiers? Mothers in Russia: Anti-War and Human Rights ActivistsSusan Logsdon-Conradsen55. Gold Star Families Speak Out: Coalitions and Anti-War Maternal ActivismJocelyn Fenton Stitt56. Raising a Ruckus with CODEPINK: Women for PeaceGayle Brandeis57.
Peace X Peace: Global Motherhood for the Twenty-first CenturyMary Liston Liepold58. Cindy SheehanNatalie WilsonSection VI: Social Change and Social Justice59. Mothers Against Drunk Driving: How Two Mothers? Personal Pain Birthed a Social MovementLaura Dreuth Zeman60. Mainstreet Moms: Organize or BustLisa Federer61 The Mother-Daughter ProjectRenée Schultz62. The Playground Revolution: Working and Stay-at-Home Parents Fight on the Same SideSarah Cote Hampson63. Mothers Acting Up: Mobilizing Mothers to Act on Behalf of the World?s ChildrenJuliana Forbes and Beth Osnes64. Moms on the Move: BC Families Supporting People with Special NeedsAndrea Doyle Hugmeyer65. Shifting the Paradigm: International Feminists for a Gift EconomyGenevieve Vaughan66.
Feminist.comAmy Richards67. The Motherhood Project and Mothers for a Human Future: Motherworld Values and the Movement to Preserve Our HumanityEnola G. Aird68. Mothers of East Los Angeles: Trailblazers in Environmental JusticeR. Dianne BartlowSection VII: Writing, Researching, and Performing Motherhood69. An Association, a Journal, and a Press of Our Own: The Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, and Demeter PressAndrea O?Reilly70. Birthing and Re-Birthing Down Under: From ARM-A to AMIRCIMarie Porter and Julie Kelso71.
Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and EthicsSigal Spigel and Lisa Baraitser72. Supporting Feminist Scholarship and Activism: National Women?s Studies Association Feminist Mothering CaucusArlene Sgoutas73. Matriarchies as Mother-Centered SocietiesHeide Goettner-Abendroth74. Moms Rock! with MamapaloozaLynn Kuechle and Joy Rose75. Museum of Motherhood, The Cultural Family: Honoring Mothers in PerpetuityLynn Kuechle and Joy Rose76. Hip MamaAriel Gore77. Things No One Will Tell You: Literary Mama Writes About Motherhood Outside the Mainstream MediaCaroline M. Grant78.
Yo?Mama/Literature for LifeJo Altilia79. Literary Brainchild: Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking MothersAnn Douglas80. Mothering: A Magazine, a Website, a Cultural ShiftPeggy O?Mara81. You Say You Want a Revolution?The FilmLynn Kuechle and Joy RoseOrganizationsContributor NotesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Maternal Activism as Matricentric Feminism: The History, Ideological Frameworks, Political Strategies and Activist Practices of the 21st Century Motherhood MovementAndrea O?ReillySection I: Becoming a Mother: Pregnancy, Childbirth, Breastfeeding1. Empowering Women to Become Mothers: Midwifery in Ontario, 1990-2010Judith Mintz2. Public Education and the Midwives Alliance of North America: Giving Birth to ?Mothers Naturally?Melissa Cheyney, Elizabeth Moore, and Geradine Simkins3. Articulating a Rhetoric of Agency for Pregnancy Through Intersectionality: The National Advocates for Pregnant WomenMichelle Trim4. Different Songs, Same Harmony: SisterSong?s Women of Color Reproductive Justice CollectiveJennifer Musial5.
Birth Trauma Canada: Advocating for the Rights of Childbearing WomenPenny Christensen6. Maternity Coalition: Australia?s National Maternity Consumer Advocacy OrganizationLareen Newman, Kerreen Reiger, and Monica Campo7. Caritas, donum vitae, pro familia, and Sozialdienst katholischer Frauen: Supporting Mothers and Sustaining the Next Generation of GermanySonja M. Allen8. The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood: Confronting Maternal Mortality as the Health Scandal of Our TimeLynn Comerford9. Save The Mothers ProgramsJacqueline Ciccio Parsons10. Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS) Ireland: Supporting Women, Promoting ChangeChristina Bermingham11. Keeping Mum, Community Art Project: Joining the Dots ? Mapping Maternal Identity in IrelandMartina Hynan12.
A BOLD Theatre Action: The Birth on Labor Day Movement to Make Maternity Care Mother-FriendlyKryn Freehling-Burton13. The International MotherBa.