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As various contemporary groups use the language of motherhood to advance their political causes, maternal rhetoric has become very visible in the American political discourse of late. Yet while it has long been recognized that women have invoked their political status as mothers to organize and authorize their political action in the past, scholars have only just begun to examine the recent reemergence of this frame. This book describes the wide variety of political causes that mothers are organizing to address, and analyses whether ideologically conservative organizations are disproportionately represented among groups using motherhood to mobilize women. Stavrianos examines the use of maternal discourses in closer detail through a comparative case study of five groups using motherhood as their primary frame for collective political action: Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Million Mom March, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens, Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust, and Mothers in Charge.Scholars interested in women and politics, interest group politics, social movements, political behavior, womens studies, motherhood studies, and framing strategies will find this book noteworthy, as it adds to a growing body of literature exploring the use of motherhood as an emerging political frame, and to the interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary discourses of motherhood.
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The Political Uses of Motherhood in America
As various contemporary groups use the language of motherhood to advance their political causes, maternal rhetoric has become very visible in the American political discourse of late. Yet while it has long been recognized that women have invoked their political status as mothers to organize and authorize their political action in the past, scholars have only just begun to examine the recent reemergence of this frame. This book describes the wide variety of political causes that mothers are organizing to address, and analyzes whether ideologically conservative organizations are disproportionately represented among groups using motherhood to mobilize women. Stavrianos examines the use of maternal discourses in closer detail through a comparative case study of five groups using motherhood as their primary frame for collective political action: Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Million Mom March, Mothers in Charge, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens, and Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust.
Scholars interested in women and politics, interest group politics, social movements, political behavior, womens studies, motherhood studies, and framing strategies will find this book noteworthy, as it adds to a growing body of literature exploring the use of motherhood as an emerging political frame, and to the interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary discourses of motherhood.
Cynthia Stavrianos is an assistant professor of political science at Gonzaga University. Previously, Dr. Stavrianos taught Womens Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Political Science at Northern Arizona University. She teaches courses in American politics, women and politics, urban politics, and race and ethnic politics. Her research interests include motherhood as a frame for political action and ridicule as a response to womens political action.
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The Political Uses of Motherhood in America
Cynthia Stavrianos
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For Freddie
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I would like to express my deep gratitude to Kent Jennings, Eric Smith, and Laury Oaks for their insightful comments, generous mentorship, and unflagging encouragement over the many years that I labored on this project. Special appreciation is due to Joseph Gardner, Ann Ostendorf, and Michael Stavrianos for their assistance with this work, which went well above and beyond what I should reasonably have expected from any of them. I am grateful to Candace Lightner (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), Donna Dees-Thomases (Million Mom March), Dorothy Johnson-Speight (Mothers in Charge), Michelle Dallacroce (Mothers Against Illegal Immigrants), and Megan Matson (Mainstreet Moms Organize or Bust) for their willingness to participate in this project. I am appreciative of The Bentley Historical Library of the University of Michigan for its support of this research through a Bordin-Gillette Research Travel Fellowship. Finally, I would like to thank Lia Roberts, Christopher McKoy, Corinna McKoy, and Bongo Gardner-Stavrianos for their important contributions to this manuscript and to my morale. This work is dedicated to Freddie who has stuck by me through thick and mostly thin.
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Introduction
Rights, not roses!
slogan chanted by National Organization for Women protestors at the White House, Mothers Day 1969
The NRA is big and scary. But it can be beaten by mother power.
television personality Rosie O Donnell, Master of Ceremonies at the Million Mom March, Mothers Day 2000
On August 26, 1970, tens of thousands of women took to the streets of New York City, Washington, DC, and dozens of other cities and towns across America to demand social and political change. This Womens Strike for Equality was organized by Betty Friedan, founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and author of The Feminine Mystique (1963), and timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteeing all American women the right to vote. The general objective of this march was clearly conveyed by the name of the actionwomens equality. Friedan and her sister strikers advanced three specific policy demands to realize this goal: free abortion on demand, equal educational and employment opportunities, and publicly provided day care to enable women with children to work outside the home.
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