Journal of the Motherhood Initiative Vol 3, No 2 (2012)

• Editorial Masthead

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Articles

• Holding On by Letting Go: Personal Agency as Maternal Activism

  Amber E. Kinser

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• Play, Battling: Representing Resistant Mothers with “Mothers Who Refuse to Choose”

  Melanie Dennis Unrau

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• The Language of Lament and Love: On Women’s Discourse and Hidden Capital

  Jane Barter

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• The Grandmothers Are With Us: Indigenous Theoretical Perspectives Towards Healing from Family Violence

  Donna Lester-Smith

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• The Authentic Lived Experiences of Young Mothers: How Empowered Young Women Mother Within and Against the Institutions of Childhood, Gender and Motherhood

  Shannon McGrady

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• The Milk Trucker: The “Controversy” of Breastfeeding and an Artist’s Response

  Rachel Epp Buller

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• Breastfeeding and Constraints on Mothers’ Agency

  Robyn Lee

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• Othermothering in the Academy: Using Maternal Advocacy for Institutional Change

  Wanda Thomas Bernard, Sasan Issari, Jemell Moriah, Marok Njiwaji, Princewill Obgan, Althea Tolliver

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• Mothers Joining Together in Sisterhood: Women Strike for Peace and the National Welfare Rights Organization in the 1960s and 1970s

  Gina Denton

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• Motherhood and Agency: American Welfare Rights Activists’ Resistance to State Control over Sexuality and Reproduction

  Cynthia Edmonds-Cady

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• “I Can Be a Mother”: Reinserting Choice as a Right for At-Risk Adolescent Mothers in Brazil

  Julianne Parker Weis

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• Remembering Australia’s Forgotten Mothers: Reclaiming Lost Identity in Colonial History

  Ruth Skilbeck

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Narratives of Maternal Activism

• Mom Power

  Cindy Sheehan

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• Unknown and Unstated Paternity and The Indian Act: Enough is Enough!

  Lynn Gehl,    Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe

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• Opting Out: An Activist Educator-Mother’s Arguments Against Standardized Testing

  Leigh M. O'Brien

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• I Feel Therefore I Can Be/long: Cultural Bearing as Maternal Activism

  Adwoa Ntozake Onuora

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• Revolutionary Becoming

  Angela Wignall

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• Making “Milky Matches”: Globalization, Maternal Trust and “Lactivist” Online Networking

  Tanya M. Cassidy

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• The Amazon of Matinino: A Personal Legacy of Female Empowerment in the Greater Antilles

  Rosalina Diaz

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• Editor’s Notes

  Jane Satterfield

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• Glass Slide

  Jane McKie

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• Burying My Mother’s Library

  Jane McKie

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• The Monster of Ravenna’s Mother

  Jane McKie

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• My Daughter and the Hyacinth Macaw

  Jane McKie

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• Archipelago

  Jane McKie

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• Baba Yaga in the Grand Canyon

  Jane McKie

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• Transcendental

  Jane McKie

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Book Reviews

• Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth about Motherhood

  Elizabeth Howells

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• The Monster Within: The Hidden Side of Motherhood

  Maya Bhave

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• M(O)thering the Nation: Constructing and Resisting National Allegories through the Maternal Body

  Abigail L. Palko

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• When Your Children Marry: How Marriage Changes Relationships with Sons and Daughters

  Sally Dear-Healey

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• Bite Your Tongue

  Julia Lisella

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Contributor Notes

• Contributor Notes

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