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Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace Paperback – January 31, 1995

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1989

Philosopher, 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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Philosopher, mother, and feminist Sara Ruddick examines the discipline of mothering, showing for the first time how day-to-day work of raising children gives rise to distinctive ways of thinking.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press (January 31, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807014095
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807014097
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.94 x 0.69 x 8.94 inches
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Cheryl
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is useful not only for feminist thinkers but for anyone interested ...
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Sara Ruddick's "Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace" persists in its relevance these many years after is first publication. This book is useful not only for feminist thinkers but for anyone interested in the development of another perspective on the militaristic consciousness that is rampant in today's industrialized and militarized societies.

Ruddick's work is courageous in that she refuses to submit to the kind of disembodied relativism so current in poststructuralist and postmodern thought. She draws upon the morphological difference and political significance of the female body, especially in its capacity to gestate life within. Her argument is not, however, about biological determinism but is a very sophisticated attempt to develop a new logic to counter the militaristic logic that has sprung from the Cartesion dichotomization of reason/body in which the "birthing body" has been noticeably absent.

She states: "Thus in opposing reason and masculinity against the body and femininity it is birthing labor and what it represents against which reason sets itself" (p. 195). In her theorizing about how "reason's body" gives way to "war's body," referred to as the militarist body, she shows how the militarist body, so characteristic of our time, has devolved to being a mere instrument, ready for deployment as a human-weapon, at the disposal of the military industrial complex. She then develops a concept of "maternal thinking" derived from the birthing body as a much needed logical counterpoint to the "techno-strategic rationality" of the militarist body.

She offers this new logic of the birthing body as a way of "maternal thinking" that is open to all - men and women - and can provide a threshold into another, more embodied reason that can begin to mitigate against the disembodied rationale that sees war as a logical course of action.
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momomo58
2.0 out of 5 stars While the topic could be interesting...
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2011
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This book is clearly written on a extreme biased point of view. While I understand most writings tend to be biased, good writers are able to engage the reader who may even disagree with the author's point of view; this fails.
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Undone
5.0 out of 5 stars Groundbreaking classic---essential reading
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2008
Stunning elegant unforgettable book, deeply moving, personally and politically crucial in many ways from which people with different perspectives will feel and learn. A genuine lasting contribution to philosophy and many other fields. This book has already been recognized as a groundbreaking classic. It will always be relevant and a point of departure for many fields and practices. It is beautifully written. By now it has proven to be constantly cited in many books and journals and conferences in many fields, and in countless probing conversations. It addresses peace work in a novel way. It addresses the underrated work of "mothering" (which in the book is called "maternal work" that the book argues can be done by anyone, not just "mothers", -- this work can be done by anyone who is committed to doing what the work entails, and the author welcomes others into this work) as the most challenging kind of thinking and practice, and as a form of philosophical thinking. On the way it situates its place in feminist critiques of Western philosophical thought in epistemology and discusses feminist debates, while also interweaving the author's own and others' anecdotal stories, also drawing on literature. The author invites discussion. She views all the topics and issues as not only worthy of further discussion, that she intends to initiate, but as crucial politically and for child-rearing and for freedom, respect and rights for women and for mothers. Some ideas: maternal work has traditionally been done by women; here is what the job entails--yikes--amazingly it includes arguably the most difficult mental/emotional work that is as challenging as any of the most difficult tasks in life (IF anything can be found that is as difficult) and as difficult and parallel to philosophical thought; women should not be defined as mothers--the concepts 'woman' and 'mother' ought not to be conflated, and look at our history and damage done from this conflation; the kind of thinking that ideally is required for maternal work could be studied and mined where useful to derive peace work. Maternal work in its ideal form or bare-bones form could be a useful place to look to inspire and construct peace work. Gratitude is due to women who throughout history who have done maternal work. Gratitude to whomever does maternal work. The book manages the difficult accomplishment of taking the point of view of the maternal worker and her subjectivity, and including children in the most compassionate ways because the maternal work, which is analyzed in the book, is arrived at by deep thought and research about what children need and about maternal love. This book is a tour de force.
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H. Davis
2.0 out of 5 stars Textbook thinking
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2007
Topic-wise this book is fascinating. Unfortunately it reads like a very monotonous textbook.

Example: "Practicalist reject a recurrent philosophical fantasy of finding a langage free from the limits of any language in which to speak of the limits of all language. Limit and perspective are intrinsic to language and to thought, not a deficiency of them. In particular, practicalists have been suspicious of attributing to science a priviledged relation to reality and making scientific knowledge the paradigm of intellectual accountability against which all other ways of knowing are tested.(pg. 15)"

Not for light reading.
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