Click here to download the flyer (PDF).

MATERNAL THINKING
PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, PRACTICE

Table of Contents

Introduction - Andrea O’Reilly

A Conversation About Maternal Thinking - Sara Ruddick and Andrea O’Reilly

PHILOSOPHY

Explaining the World: Philosophical Reflections on Feminism and Mothering
- Maureen Linker

Paid Childcare, Responsibility and Trust - Amy Mullin

Narrating as a Mother: Experience, Cognition, and Narrative Form in Jane Smiley’s Ordinary Love and Good Will - Joanne Frye

The Virture of Honoring Oneself - Judith Andre.

Maternal Thinking and Civic Virtue: A Healthy Ethical Dialectic - Ann Mongoven.
Mothering Without Norms?: Empirical Realities and Normative Conceptualizations of Mothering - Patrice DiQuinzio

The Mother in Mr. Chipps: Educating Artists and Maternal Thinking - Denise Ferris

POLITICS

Mothers Working Together for Peace: Sara Ruddick and the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo - Marguerite Guzmán Bouvard

Cindy Sheehan: A Call to Maternal Activism in the Contemporary Peace Movement - Linda Pershing

Migration and Maternalism: (Re) Configuring Ruddick’s Maternal Thinking
- Glenda Lynna Anne Tibe Bonifacio

Rethinking Ruddick’s Birthgiver/Adoptive Mother Distinction - Jean Keller

PRACTICE

Sara Ruddick’s ‘Motherwork’: Personal Perceptions to Academic Analysis - Marie Porter

Maternal Thinking Expanded: A Psychologist’s View - Regina Edmonds.

Feminist Mothering as Maternal Practice: Maternal Authority and Social Acceptability of Children - Andrea O’Reilly

Becoming a Mother, Becoming a Researcher: How Maternal Thinking Shaped a Career - Tracy R. Nichols

Maternal Practice: Mothering and Cultural Variation in Anthropology - Susan Schalge

Epilogue and a New Beginning - Sara Ruddick

 

Demeter Press c/o
Association for Research on Mothering
206T Founders, York University,
4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON, Canada, M3J 1P3
Phone: (416) 736-2100 x60366 FAX: (416) 736-5766
Email: arm@yorku.ca