Abstract
During the Vietnam War, a maternal pacifist group named La WISP developed and sold cookbooks as fundraisers for its causes. The cookbooks provide an opportunity to explore the linkages between quotidian practices and the performativity of identity. This critique offers instructive evidence about the inventional possibilities of maternal pacifist politics, including the redefinition of issues of war and peace in international rather than national terms and replacing antagonistic rhetorics with rhetorics of identification and cooperation.