Maternal thinking: towards a politics of peace

London: The Women's Press (1989)
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Abstract

The most popular uniting theme in feminist peace literature grounds women's peace work in mothering. I argue if maternal arguments do not address the variety of relationships different races and classes of mothers have to institutional violence and/or the military, then the resulting peace politics can only draw incomplete conclusions about the relationships between maternal work/thinking and peace. To illustrate this I compare two models of mothering: Sara Ruddick's decription of "maternal practice" and Patricia Hill Collins's account of racial-ethnic women's "motherwork."

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original Ruddick, Sara (1990) "Maternal Thinking: Towards a Politics of Peace". Women's Press (UK)

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