| Zusammenfassung: | In less than two decades, female ceramic artisans of Santa María Atzompa, Oaxaca, Mexico (Atzompeñas), have become integral political and economic actors in their community as a result of a dialectic that has allowed a redefinition of motherhood and a renegotiation of traditional maternal responsibility to family and community. They have been able to accomplish this by invoking a responsibility toward reproduction that moves beyond the biological and places emphasis on the social and economic as their production has moved from household craft to the work of global artisans. In recent years, a threat to their autonomy and power has developed from the exceedingly high levels of lead in the green glaze that dominates their ceramic production. This threat is currently being mediated through a discourse rooted in a contradictory political and moral economy that views the obtained power and status of women as having more value than the current health and, in many cases, the lives of their children and families.
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