{"id":33,"date":"2008-02-26T10:45:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T15:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/motivation\/2008\/02\/26\/ruddick-and-mackinnon\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T10:45:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T15:45:43","slug":"ruddick-and-mackinnon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/2008\/02\/26\/ruddick-and-mackinnon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruddick and MacKinnon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To what extent is Ruddick\u2019s \u201cmaternal approach\u201d to ethics at methodological odds with MacKinnon\u2019s feminist ethics?  One difference is clear: whereas Ruddick takes a naturalistic account of mothering as the starting point, Mackinnon claims that \u201cnature, law, the family, and roles\u201d should be seen as \u201cconsequences, not foundations\u201d of women\u2019s situation.  But does this difference in approach result in, or arise from, radically different theories of the nature of truth claims?  While our summary of Ruddick\u2019s theory does not directly address this issue, it seems to me that she is advocating \u201cmaternal thinking\u201d as just one way of knowing\/relating to others\u2014just as Mackinnon concludes, \u201cFeminism\u2026 questions the universality imperative itself.  Aperspectivity is revealed as a strategy of male hegemony.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To what extent is Ruddick\u2019s \u201cmaternal approach\u201d to ethics at methodological odds with MacKinnon\u2019s feminist ethics? One difference is clear: whereas Ruddick takes a naturalistic account of mothering as the starting point, Mackinnon claims that \u201cnature, law, the family, and roles\u201d should be seen as \u201cconsequences, not foundations\u201d of women\u2019s situation. But does this difference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/motivation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}