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Article: NWSA looks at resistance to empire.(on nwsa)(National Women's Studies Association)(Conference notes)
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- April 1, 2006
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Plenary sessions on mothering and militarism were the highlights of this year's National Women's Studies Association meeting, held in Oakland, Calif., June 15-18.
At the plenary on Motherhood as Resistance/Activism/Social Change, Andrea O'Reilly cited Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born on the differences between mothering and the institution of motherhood. O'Reilly is a women's studies professor at York University, Toronto; she has written several books on mothering and is the founder of the Association for Research and Mothering.
Rich said she was an outlaw from the institution of motherhood, O'Reilly noted.
Motherhood under male control is deeply ...