It's full of weird & wrongheaded appropriations, and it also makes no damn sense because it doesn't say what radical motherhood is. It talks about various stripes of radical womanhood (old-school-feeling stripes, I have to say) and just sort of assumes that therefore all of these radical women are mothers, which makes them radical mothers. It seems to me that a woman can do a lot of radical stuff and still be a completely conventional mother; likewise I know women who are at least progressive in their mothering but are overall very conservative.
Lastly, it seems to say over and over that radical mothering is about one's relationship to the larger community and to other radical mothers, rather than having something to do with one's relationship with one's children. Children are barely mentioned in this whole thing.
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Date: 2010-08-05 04:06 pm (UTC)Lastly, it seems to say over and over that radical mothering is about one's relationship to the larger community and to other radical mothers, rather than having something to do with one's relationship with one's children. Children are barely mentioned in this whole thing.