ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes factors determining the outcomes of civic participation of mothers in Poland. It considers the cases of motherist mobilizations, whose effects vary significantly: while the Childbirth with Dignity Foundation has been very successful both in terms of changing attitudes and practices concerning perinatal care, as well as introducing new legal regulations, and the protest of women in the Wabrzych area failed. It also analyses the cases of mobilizations around economic rights/interests: the Alimony Fund (AF) movement and the protest of poor women in Wabrzych. The chapter shows that an important factor in determining the outcomes of women's social movements in the specific cultural context of Poland is the framing of mother's rights in relation to prevailing gendered cultural legacies and the neoliberal character of Polish transition. Traditionally, in explaining the results of social movements, researchers have been polarized between different paradigms such as the resource mobilization and 'political process' models.
