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Constructing Maternal Thinking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Jean P. Rumsey
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Abstract

Sara Ruddick's Maternal Thinking represents a great contribution to moral philosophy—in particular, by bringing women's “private” virtues into the public sphere. However, there remain problems in the analysis which need to be addressed: How can one possibly generalize about the practice of mothering from one, necessarily limited, perspective, given the facts of cultural diversity? Is Ruddick's normative account of mothering congruent with the reflective judgments of others? Is her account of the transformation of parochial mothering into feminist peace work viable? After exploring these three questions, this reviewer calk, with Ruddkk, for the telling of more maternal stories, from different cultural, racial and economic perspectives.

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Hypatia , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , Fall 1990 , pp. 125 - 131
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Copyright © 1990 by Hypatia, Inc.

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