Advanced search
Publication Cover
Women's Studies in Communication Volume 30, 2007 - Issue 3
Submit an article Journal homepage
271
Views
14
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
ESSAYS

Performing Resistance in/from the Kitchen: The Practice of Maternal Pacifist Politics and La WISP's Cookbooks

Isaac West Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University
Pages 358-383 | Published online: 11 Nov 2010
 
Sample our Social Sciences journals, sign in here to start your FREE access for 14 days

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.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related Research Data

"Cartes Postales": Representing Paris 1900
Source: University of Chicago Press
An (in)visible universe of grief: Performative disidentifications with white motherhood in the We are not Trayvon Martin blog
Source: Informa UK Limited
Journalists as interpretive communities
Source: Informa UK Limited
Militant Motherhood: Labor's Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.
Source: Informa UK Limited
Reform, Justice, and Sovereignty: A Food Systems Agenda for Environmental Communication
Source: Informa UK Limited
Reconstructing Motherhood: The La Leche League in Postwar America
Source: Oxford University Press (OUP)
A Dialectic With the Everyday: Communication and Cultural Politics on Oprah Winfrey's Book Club
Source: Informa UK Limited
Ladies' Day at the Capitol: Women Strike for Peace versus HUAC
Source: JSTOR
Inventing Women: From Amaterasu to Virginia Woolf
Source: Informa UK Limited
The Way to a Man's Heart: Gender Roles, Domestic Ideology, and Cookbooks in the 1950s
Source: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Postmodernism, Resistance, and Cyberspace: Making Rhetorical Spaces for Feminist Mothers on the Web
Source: Informa UK Limited
The Truth of the Matter: Motherhood, Community and Environmental Justice
Source: Informa UK Limited
American Women and Culinary Culture
Source: University of Iowa Press
Haunting Argentina: Synecdoche in the protests of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Source: Informa UK Limited
Motherhood as political voice: The rhetoric of the mothers of Plaza de Mayo
Source: Informa UK Limited
Family Metaphors and the Nation: Promoting a Politics of Care through the Million Mom March.
Source: Informa UK Limited
Sons and M(others): Framing the Maternal Body and the Politics of Repoduction in a South Indian Context
Source: Informa UK Limited
Challenging Contemporary Narrative Theory: The Alternative Textual Strategies of Nineteenth‐Century Manuscript Cookbooks
Source: Wiley
Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book: The Aesthetics of American Food in the 1950s
Source: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Love, Toil, and Trouble: Motherhood and Feminist Politics
Source: University of Chicago Press
The Political Palate: Reading Commune Cookbooks
Source: University of California Press
Re-Sourcement as Emancipation: A Case Study of Ritualized Sewing
Source: Informa UK Limited
Everyday Life and Cultural Theory
Source: Routledge
Morals, Mothers and Militarism: A Review Essay on Feminism and Antimilitarism
Source: JSTOR

Linking provided by 

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.