Women in Labor: Teaching, Mothering, and Intention Among Women Organizers

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Abstract

In this paper, I describe the results of an interview-based study of eight women who are simultaneously teachers, mothers, and organizers. Using a feminist poststructuralist lens, I focus on these subjectivities' areas of tension and coalescence. Specifically, I question the intentionality with which participants describe their paths to teaching, motherhood, and organizing and stress the importance of intentionality when developing new leaders within the ranks of union leadership.

Author

• Crystal Howell, Randolph College