Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace

Sara Ruddick. Ballantine Books, $12.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-345-36611-5

In what PW called ``a well-intentioned but muddled philosophical treatise,'' Ruddick wonders whether the so-called maternal instinct could g be tapped to galvanize a nonviolent, anti-militarist politics of peace. (June)

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