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THE 21ST CENTURY MOTHERHOOD MOVEMENT

This is a very Valuable Resource!  Let's Empower Mothers Globally!

The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It 

by Andrea O'Reilly (Author, Editor)
 

This anthology, the first on the 21st century motherhood movement,includes seven sections: Becoming a Mother; Maternal Identities; Maternal Advocacy; Maternal Activism; Violence, Militarism, War and Peace; Social Change and Social Justice; Writing/Researching/ Performing Motherhood and features more than eighty motherhood organizations from around the globe. Each chapter discusses the context, history, mandate of the organization and examines the organization s activities, challenges, future goals, and its relationship to the larger motherhood movement. The introduction provides an overview of the history and ideological frameworks of the 21st century motherhood movement, discusses the challenges and possibilities of maternalism, details the specific practices and strategies of 21st century maternal activism, and considers such in relation to feminist theory and practice. This book affirms that the 21st century motherhood movement is an autonomous and distinct social movement that makes possible a much needed and long overdue mother-centred theory and politic of feminism.
The 21st Century Motherhood Movement Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Maternal Activism as Matricentric Feminism: The History, Ideological Frameworks, Political Strategies and Activist Practices of the 21st Century Motherhood Movement
Andrea O’Reilly
Section I: Becoming a Mother: Pregnancy, Childbirth, Breastfeeding
1. Empowering Women to Become Mothers: Midwifery in Ontario, 1990-2010
Judith Mintz
2. Public Education and the Midwives Alliance of North America: Giving Birth to “Mothers Naturally”
Melissa Cheyney, Elizabeth Moore, and Geradine Simkins
3. Articulating a Rhetoric of Agency for Pregnancy Through Intersectionality: The National Advocates for Pregnant Women
Michelle Trim
4. Different Songs, Same Harmony: SisterSong’s Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
Jennifer Musial
5. Birth Trauma Canada: Advocating for the Rights of Childbearing Women
Penny Christensen
6. Maternity Coalition: Australia’s National Maternity Consumer Advocacy Organization
Lareen Newman, Kerreen Reiger, and Monica Campo
7. Caritas, donum vitae, pro familia, and Sozialdienst katholischer Frauen: Supporting Mothers and Sustaining the Next Generation of Germany
Sonja M. Allen
8. The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood: Confronting Maternal Mortality as the Health Scandal of Our Time
Lynn Comerford
9. Save The Mothers Programs
Jacqueline Ciccio Parsons
10. Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS) Ireland: Supporting Women, Promoting Change
Christina Bermingham
11. Keeping Mum, Community Art Project: Joining the Dots … Mapping Maternal Identity in Ireland
Martina Hynan
12. A BOLD Theatre Action: The Birth on Labor Day Movement to Make Maternity Care Mother-Friendly
Kryn Freehling-Burton
13. The International MotherBaby Childbirth Organization: Working To Create Optimal Maternity Care Worldwide
Robbie Davis-Floyd, Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Mayri Sagady Leslie, Rae Davies, Hélène Vadeboncoeur, and Rodolfo Gómez Ponce de León
14. Surgery is a Natural Birth Plan for Many Women: The Organization electivecesarean.com
Pauline McDonagh Hull
15. La Leche League International
Cindy Cowan
16. Middle-Class Mothers as Activists for Change: The Australian Breastfeeding Association
Virginia Thorley
Section II: Maternal Identities
17. Project GirlMom: An Affirmation of Positive Maternal Identity
Sandy M. May
18. “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, Texas
Cristina Herrera
19. Single Mothers by Choice: No Time to Wait for a Perfect Partner
Veronika Novoselova
20. Incarcerated Mothers, Mothers First and Foremost: Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Karen Shain
21. The Right to Mother – DAWN-RAFH Canada: 25 Years of Activism for Reproductive Control of Our Bodies
Jewelles Smith
22. Mocha Moms: Lifting as We Climb
R. Dianne Bartlow
23. Queering the Family Tree: LGBTQ Parenting Network, Sherbourne Health Centre
Rachel Epstein
Section III: Maternal Advocacy
24. The Mother Centers International Network
Monika Jaeckel
25. The Birth and Evolution of the National Association of Mothers’ Centers: My Radical Hope
Lorri Slepian, with Laurie Sylla and Rosanne Weston
26. Empowering First-Time Mothers: The Feminist Coping with Change Maternal Health Promotion Program
Fiona Joy Green
27. Honouring our Grandmothers’ Spirits: Warriors Against Violence Society
Donna Lester-Smith and Joyce Fossella
28. Our Family Coalition: Mothering on the Curve
Heaven Walker
29. Family and Home Network: Listening, Learning and Leading for Over 25 Years
Catherine H. Myers
30. Attachment Parenting International: Nurturing Generations of Mothers, Children and Families
Sally Dear-Healey
31. Choice Moms: Building Community, Resources and Services for the Choice Mom Community Worldwide
Christin Geall
32. Bad Mothers Club: The Online Safe Haven for Australian Mums. Politically Incorrect or Reality Parenting?
Amanda Cox
33. Feminism by Stealth in the Suburbs: The Feminist Mothers Discussion Group
Andrea Fox
34. Toronto Feminist Mothers: A Work in Progress
Tania Jivraj
Section IV: Maternal Activism
35. Mothers Are Women
Kristen Abatsis McHenry
36. MOTHERS Uniting and Organizing for Change: The Next Step in Building a Mothers’ Movement
Linda Lisi Juergens
37. Mothers & More: Fighting “Invisimomibility”: to Make Mothering Count
Jenna Vinson
38. Welfare Warriors: Fighting for the Lives of Mothers and Children
Pat Gowens
39. MomsRising: A Million-Member Organization Working to Ensure Family Economic Security and to End Discrimination Against Mothers
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner and Mary Olivella
40. Jennifer Schumaker’s 500 Mile Walk for Togetherness
Natalie Wilson
41. The LGBT Family Coalition of Quebec
Nancy Nicol
42. Changing the World One Mother at a Time: The International Mothers and Mothering Network
Melinda Vandenbeld Giles
43. Mother Outlaws: Building Communities of Empowered: Feminist Mothers in the Mother’hood
Linn Baran
44. The Mothers Movement Online
Rachel Sutz Pienta
Section V: Violence, Militarism, War and Peace
45. How to Mobilize One Million Mothers: The Million Mom March and the Power of the Social Network
Rachel Sutz Pienta
46. United Mothers Opposing Violence Everywhere: Moving Up, Moving Outward
Laura Pennington
47. Taking Back the Streets, Helping Victims Heal: “Mothers In Charge” in Philadelphia
Abigail L. Palko
48. Policing the Police in Every Mother’s Son: A Profile of Mother-Warriors Seeking Justice in New York City
Amber Fatima Riaz
49. No Body, No Crime? The Mothers of Acari and the Struggle for Justice and Non-Violence
Tatiana Moura and Rita Santos
50. Mothers Against Trafficking Humans
Glendene Grant
51. American Mothers Fighting the Vietnam War: Another Mother for Peace
Meghan Gibbons
52. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard
53. The Mothers of Laleh Park: The Mourning Mothers of Iran Demand an End to Violence
Susan Logsdon-Conradsen
54. The Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers in Russia: Anti-War and Human Rights Activists
Susan Logsdon-Conradsen
55. Gold Star Families Speak Out: Coalitions and Anti-War Maternal Activism
Jocelyn Fenton Stitt
56. Raising a Ruckus with CODEPINK: Women for Peace
Gayle Brandeis
57. Peace X Peace: Global Motherhood for the Twenty-first Century
Mary Liston Liepold
58. Cindy Sheehan
Natalie Wilson
Section VI: Social Change and Social Justice
59. Mothers Against Drunk Driving: How Two Mothers’ Personal Pain Birthed a Social Movement
Laura Dreuth Zeman
60. Mainstreet Moms: Organize or Bust
Lisa Federer
61 The Mother-Daughter Project
Renée Schultz
62. The Playground Revolution: Working and Stay-at-Home Parents Fight on the Same Side
Sarah Cote Hampson
63. Mothers Acting Up: Mobilizing Mothers to Act on Behalf of the World’s Children
Juliana Forbes and Beth Osnes
64. Moms on the Move: BC Families Supporting People with Special Needs
Andrea Doyle Hugmeyer
65. Shifting the Paradigm: International Feminists for a Gift Economy
Genevieve Vaughan
66. Feminist.com
Amy Richards
67. The Motherhood Project and Mothers for a Human Future: Motherworld Values and the Movement to Preserve Our Humanity
Enola G. Aird
68. Mothers of East Los Angeles: Trailblazers in Environmental Justice
R. Dianne Bartlow
Section VII: Writing, Researching, and Performing Motherhood
69. 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 Press
Andrea O’Reilly
70. Birthing and Re-Birthing Down Under: From ARM-A to AMIRCI
Marie Porter and Julie Kelso
71. Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics
Sigal Spigel and Lisa Baraitser
72. Supporting Feminist Scholarship and Activism: National Women’s Studies Association Feminist Mothering Caucus
Arlene Sgoutas
73. Matriarchies as Mother-Centered Societies
Heide Goettner-Abendroth
74. Moms Rock! with Mamapalooza
Lynn Kuechle and Joy Rose
75. Museum of Motherhood, The Cultural Family: Honoring Mothers in Perpetuity
Lynn Kuechle and Joy Rose
76. Hip Mama
Ariel Gore
77. Things No One Will Tell You: Literary Mama Writes About Motherhood Outside the Mainstream Media
Caroline M. Grant
78. Yo’Mama/Literature for Life
Jo Altilia
79. Literary Brainchild: Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers
Ann Douglas
80. Mothering: A Magazine, a Website, a Cultural Shift
Peggy O’Mara
81. You Say You Want a Revolution—The Film
Lynn Kuechle and Joy Rose
Organizations
Contributor Notes

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MOTHERS AGAINST FRACKING

Hydraulic fracturing is a process used in nine out of 10 natural gas wells in the United States, where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart the rock and release the gas.  Fracking and drilling associated with fracking pose a direct and immediate threat to the drinking water, air, climate, food, health and economies of communities across the United States. Fracking must be stopped IMMEDIATELY.   It is causing huge chemical spills, earthquakes, gas explosions, and is posing a very serious health threat to humans and animals alike.


Americans Against Fracking is comprised of entities dedicated to banning drilling and fracking for oil and natural gas in order to protect our shared vital resources for future generations. All of the organizations listed below are part of the Americans Against Fracking  Movement.  You should think about taking action in your community today! There is quite a lot one person can do in terms of educating her community, signing petitions, and voting appropriately.  To see what you can do visit
AMERICANS AGAINST FRACKING

National Organizations In AAF

Fracking Chemicals

Horizontal fracking uses up to 300 tons of a mixture of 750 chemicals, many of them proprietary, and millions of gallons of water per frack. This water then becomes contaminated and must be cleaned and disposed of. To date, the oil/gas industry has been secretive about what chemicals are used, and has lobbied Congress for a variety of protections. Much of the contaminated water is taken to water treatment plants that are not designed to process the chemicals and radiation found in fracking fluids.
The Safe Drinking Water Act was passed by Congress, in 1974, to ensure clean drinking water free from both natural and man-made contaminates.


In 2005, the Bush/Cheney Energy Bill exempted natural gas drilling from the Safe Drinking Water Act. It exempts companies from disclosing the chemicals used during hydraulic fracturing. Essentially, the provision took the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) off the job. It is now commonly referred to as the Halliburton Loophole.
 *from: MADION website


The following information was found on MADION's website.  All mothers should be aware of the various health threats fracking pose.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber Talks About Drilling & Fracking

Dr. Sandra Steingraber is internationally recognized as an authority on the environmental links to cancer and human health. Steingraber was formerly on faculty at Cornell University and is currently Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Ithaca College, located in Ithaca, New York. Steingraber has held visiting fellowships at the University of Illinois, Radcliffe/Harvard, and Northeastern University, and served on President Clinton’s National Action Plan on Breast Cancer. “I’ve heard a hazardous materials specialist describe to a crowd of people living in fracked communities how many parts per million of benzene will raise risks for leukemia and sperm abnormalities linked to birth deformities. I’ve heard a woman who lives by a fracking operation in Pennsylvania—whose pond bubbles with methane and whose kids have nosebleeds at night—ask how she could keep her children safe. She was asking me. And I had no answer.” Click to see the Senate Standing Committee on Energy Conservation Public Hearing to examine waste water produced by hydraulic fracturing, sponsored by New York State Senators Mark Grisanti and Patrick Gallivan. January 12, 2011, Canandaigua, NY.
Prize to Fuel Anti-fracking Fight
Biologist giving most of $100G environmental award to opponents
By Brian Nearing
March 27, 2012
Sandra Steingraber, winner of a Heinz Foundation award, decided to use her $100,000 national environmental prize to help a newly formed coalition of six environmental and political groups that are working to keep hydrofracking from being allowed in the state.
“This is a very generous donation that is still a drop in the bucket compared to what the drillers have spent and will continue to spend,” said Cantor. “But we have something that money cannot buy — the passion of a lot of people from across the state.” Read more…
Sandra Steingraber on Fracking and Cancer

Among many of her accomplishments, Sandra Steingraber is also an ecologist, author and cancer survivor. Yet, Steingraber sees her most important role as a parent whose responsibility it is to keep her children safe from harm. Full article…
December 12, 2011: Dr. Steingraber’s letter to Governor Cuomo of New York
“As New York State considers whether to maintain or lift its current moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, we bring to your attention the myriad ways in which the introduction of this industrial practice in New York State will raise our cancer risk even further and add more data points to the New York State Cancer Registry. As such, we echo the call of the more than 250 physicians and medical professionals who, in their letter to you of October 7, 2011, requested that the state fully assess the human health impacts of hydraulic fracturing in advance of issuing permits and as part of the decision-making process.” Full text of letter…

The Whole Fracking Enchilada Violating the bedrock, the atmosphere, and everything in between
BY SANDRA STEINGRABER
Published in the September/October 2010 issue of Orion magazine
I HAVE COME to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too. Full article… Top


Dr. Theo Colborn Talks About Drilling & Fracking


Dr. Colborn earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Zoology (distributed minors in epidemiology, toxicology, and water chemistry); an MA in Science at Western State College of Colorado (fresh-water ecology); and a BS in Pharmacy from Rutgers University, College of Pharmacy. Colborn has served on numerous advisory panels, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, the Ecosystem Health Committee of the International Joint Commission of the United States and Canada, the Science Management Committee of the Toxic Substances Research Initiative of Canada, the U.S. EPA Endocrine Disruptor Screening and Testing Advisory Committee, and the EPA Endocrine Disruption Methods and Validation Subcommittee. She has published and lectured extensively on the consequences of prenatal exposure to synthetic chemicals by the developing embryo and fetus in wildlife, laboratory animals, and humans.
World-Renowned Scientist Dr. Theo Colborn on the Health Effects of Water Contamination from Fracking
The Environmental Protection Agency has begun a review of how the drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” can affect drinking water quality. We speak to Dr. Theo Colborn, the president of the Endocrine Disruption Exchange and one of the foremost experts on the health and environmental effects of the toxic chemicals used in fracking. Click to see video…

Dr. Theo Colborn Talks Fracking
This video depicts rural areas. However, the drilling and fracking process is the same as well as the contaminants now being released in our urban neighborhoods. To date, very little scientific data is available to inform residents, living only hundreds of feet from a drill pad and tank batteries, of the health problems our children will experience. The scientific community can only speculate what the short term and long term exposure to all the toxic chemicals and gases emitted from each well that is drilled, fracked and producing will have on all our lives.
Theo Colborn, Ph.D talks hydraulic fracturing. Clips were taken from her DVD, “What You Need To Know About Natural Gas Production.”
Natural Gas Operations from a Public Health Perspective Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, Taylor & Francis
Volume 17, Issue 5, Sept 20, 2011 Theo Colborn, Carol Kwiatkowski, Kim Schultz & Mary Bachran

ABSTRACT:
The technology to recover natural gas depends on undisclosed types and amounts of toxic chemicals. A list of 944 products containing 632 chemicals used during natural gas operations was compiled. Literature searches were conducted to determine potential health effects of the 353 chemicals identified by Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) numbers. More than 75% of the chemicals could affect the skin, eyes, and other sensory organs, and the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems. Full ABSTRACT…



LINKS TO VERY IMPORTANT SITES: 

AMERICANS AGAINST FRACKING
MADION: Mothers Against Drilling in our Neighborhoods
MOTHERS AGAINST FRACKING FACEBOOK SITE

I FEEL VERY PASSIONATELY ABOUT STOPPING HYDRAULIC FRACKING! SEE WHAT YOU CAN DO IN YOUR COMMUNITY!  VISIT AMERICANS AGAINST FRACKING!


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