Introduction - Andrea O?ReillyA Conversation About Maternal Thinking - Sara Ruddick and Andrea O?ReillyPHILOSOPHYExplaining the World: Philosophical Reflections on Feminism and Mothering- Maureen LinkerPaid Childcare, Responsibility and Trust - Amy MullinNarrating as a Mother: Experience, Cognition, and Narrative Form in Jane Smiley?s Ordinary Love and Good Will - Joanne FryeThe 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 DiQuinzioThe Mother in Mr. Chipps: Educating Artists and Maternal Thinking - Denise FerrisPOLITICSMothers Working Together for Peace: Sara Ruddick and the Madres of the Plaza de Mayo - Marguerite Guzmán BouvardCindy Sheehan: A Call to Maternal Activism in the Contemporary Peace Movement - Linda PershingMigration and Maternalism: (Re) Configuring Ruddick?s Maternal Thinking- Glenda Lynna Anne Tibe BonifacioRethinking Ruddick?s Birthgiver/Adoptive Mother Distinction - Jean KellerPRACTICESara Ruddick?s ?Motherwork?: Personal Perceptions to Academic Analysis - Marie PorterMaternal Thinking Expanded: A Psychologist?s View - Regina Edmonds.Feminist Mothering as Maternal Practice: Maternal Authority and Social Acceptability of Children - Andrea O?ReillyBecoming a Mother, Becoming a Researcher: How Maternal Thinking Shaped a Career - Tracy R. NicholsMaternal Practice: Mothering and Cultural Variation in Anthropology - Susan SchalgeEpilogue and a New Beginning - Sara Ruddick.