Research Catalog

Title

Maternal thinking : philosophy, politics, practice / edited by Andrea O'Reilly.

Publication

Toronto : Demeter Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961-

Description

xii, 274 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The year 2009 marks twenty years since the publication of Sara Ruddick's monumental text Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, a book that is regarded, along with Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born, as the most significant work in maternal scholarship and the new field of Motherhood Studies. What made Maternal Thinking so life-changing and ground-breaking was that it foregrounded what all mothers know: motherwork is inherently and profoundly an intellectual activity and theorized the obvious--Mothers think. This volume, published to commemorate and celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Maternal Thinking, explores the impact and influence this book has had on maternal scholarship and revisits what motherhood scholars regard as the pivotal insights of Ruddick's text: motherwork is a practice that gives rise to and is informed by "maternal thinking"; mothering, as a practice, is composed of and characterized by particular characteristics; this work is not defined by or reducible to gender; and maternal thinking makes possible a politics a peace. The volume includes 17 contributors from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, sociology, literature, philosophy, education, women's studies and psychology and features a conversation with and an epilogue by Sara Ruddick." --Publisher description.

Subject

• Ruddick, Sara, 1935-
• Ruddick, Sara, 1935-2011
• Motherhood > Philosophy
• Motherhood > Psychological aspects

Note

• "The aim of this volume, published to commemorate and celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Sara Ruddick's Maternal thinking, explores the impact and influence this book has had on maternal scholarship over the last two decades."--P. 3.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Andrea O'Reilly -- A conversation about Maternal thinking / Andrea O'Reilly and Sara Rudick -- 1. Explaining the world : philosophical reflections on feminism and mothering / Maureen Linker -- 2. Paid childcare : responsibility and trust / Amy Mullin -- 3. Narrating as a mother : experience, cognition, and narrative form in Jane Smiley's Ordinary love and Good will / Joanne Frye -- 4. The virtue of honoring oneself / Judith Andre -- 5. Maternal thinking and civic virtue : a healthy ethical dialectic / Ann Mongoven -- 6. Mothering without norms? : empirical realities and normative conceptualizations of mothering / Patrice DiQuinzio -- 7. The mother in Mr. Chipps : educating artists and maternal thinking / Denise Ferris -- 8. Mothers working together for peace : Sara Ruddick and the Madras of the Plaza de Mayo / Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard -- 9. Cindy Sheehan : a call to maternal activism in the contemporary peace movement / Linda Pershing -- 10. Migration and maternalism : (re)configuring Ruddick's Maternal thinking / Glenda Lynna Anne Tibe Bonifacio -- 11. Rethinking Ruddick's birthgiver/adoptive mother distinction / Jean Keller -- 12. Sara Ruddick's "Motherwork" : personal perceptions to academic analysis / Marie Porter -- 13. Maternal thinking expanded : a psychologist's view / Regina Edmonds -- 14. Feminist mothering as maternal practice : maternal authority and social acceptability of children / Andrea O'Reilly -- 15. Becoming a mother, becoming a researcher : how maternal thinking shaped a career / Tracy R. Nichols -- 16. Maternal practice : mothering and cultural variation in anthropology / Susan Schlage -- Epilogue and a new beginning / Sara Ruddick.

ISBN

• 9781550145168
• 1550145169

OCLC

455789819

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library