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. |
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Loves Reason | 3 |
Making It Up | 61 |
Maternal Thinking as a Feminist Standpoint | 127 |
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abstract abuse activity Adrienne Rich ahimsa antimilitarist attentive love Audre Lorde baby battle become believe birthgiving birthing labor bodily capacity caring labor Carol Gilligan Chapter chil child Christa Wolf commitment conception critical CRTMC cultures damage danger death demands desire develop discipline dominant Dorothy Dinnerstein dren engage Evelyn Fox Keller experience fantasy Fathers fear feelings female bodies feminine feminism Feminist Standpoint fight gender giving birth Grace Paley Hartsock human identify infant intellectual Jane Lazarre Jean Bethke Elshtain lives male masculine maternal nonviolence maternal peacefulness maternal practice maternal thinking means militarist military moral mothers nature Nel Noddings Nonetheless nurturance Olive Schreiner pain particular passion peace politics peacemaking perspective philosophers physical pleasure politics of resistance preservative love protect requires responsibility Ruddick Sara Ruddick sexual Simone Weil social soldiers speak stories strategies struggle suffering theory violence virtue vulnerable woman women women's politics York
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Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture Professor Roland Robertson No preview available - 1992 |