Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of PeaceA New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1989Philosopher, mother, and feminist Sara Ruddick examines the discipline of mothering, showing for the first time how the day-to-day work of raising children gives rise to distinctive ways of thinking. |
Contents
Loves Reason | 3 |
Making It | 61 |
Maternal Thinking as a Feminist Standpoint | 127 |
Copyright | |
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abstract abuse active Adrienne Rich ahimsa antimilitarist Audre Lorde battle become birthgiving birthing labor bodily caring labor Carol Gilligan Chapter child Christa Wolf commitment conception CRTMC cultures damage danger death demands desire develop dominant Dorothy Dinnerstein enemy Evelyn Fox Keller experience fantasy Fathers fear feelings female bodies feminine feminism Feminist Standpoint fight gender giving birth Hartsock human ideals of nonviolence identify infant intellectual Jane Lazarre Jean Bethke Elshtain kill Kollwitz lives male masculine maternal nonviolence maternal peacefulness maternal practice maternal thinking men's militarist military moral mothers nature Nel Noddings Nonetheless nuclear nurturance object relations theory Olive Schreiner pain particular passion peace politics peacemaking philosophers physical pleasure politics of resistance preservative love protect reason requires responsibility Sara Ruddick sexual Simone Weil social soldiers solidarity speak stories strategies struggle suffering ternal theory University Press victims violence virtue vulnerable weapons women women's politics York
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Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture Professor Roland Robertson No preview available - 1992 |