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natural mothering  

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  • Natural mothering is a lifestyle that challenges mainstream parenting practices popularized in the 20th century through present day. Natural mothering champions nature over technology and self-reliance over material consumption and deference to “experts.” This alternative form of parenting enacts a particular form of everyday activism, or what New Social Movements scholars increasingly find in contemporary social movements—a focus on the day-to-day content of personal lives, linked with issues of identity rather than economic grievances characteristic of, for example, the working class. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Natural Mothering]

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