Researching Mothers in Public and Political Life:

Bohn, Simone; Parmaksız, Pınar Melis Yelsalı

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“…(Quoted in Pérez Osorio, 2020) Escobedo's advocacy for Rubí exemplifies maternal activism, a practice traditionally conceived as drawing upon women's maternal roles to make social or political demands (Bohn & Melis Yelsali Parmaksiz, 2017;DiQuinzio, 2006;Orozco Mendoza, 2016;Whetstone, 2021). The organization Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, sometimes referred to as "The Mothers," in Latin America, epitomizes this practice.…”

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Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future

Mendoza

2023

Sociology Compass

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This essay offers a comparative assessment of past and present contributions to the study of maternal activism within feminist scholarship broadly understood while also providing some thoughts about its future directions. While typically defined as adopting a maternal frame to pursue a social or political cause, this essay posits maternal activism as an evolving and contested field of inquiry. I start this analysis by discussing early critiques of motherhood as a patriarchal institution within liberal feminism and other competing frameworks that conceive maternalism as a distinct modality of thought and action. I then underscore the evolving character of the field by examining scholarly works on Black, Indigenous, and Latin American maternal activism. Building upon past and present analyses, and in line with their evolving character, I formulate a provisional definition of maternal activism as a caretaking function sustained through direct action inside and outside the household and beyond that activist-scholars interested in exploring future directions of maternal activism can engage and re-envision. This essay contributes to existing analyses by highlighting the transformative character of maternal activism scholarship.

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confidence: 99%