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    It is not the case that Sara Ruddick's 'maternal thinking' thesis holds that caring practices cultivate moral reasoning capacities that can ground principled resistance.

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    • 1.Maternal thinking may equally cultivate complicity with unjust systems, as care duties can create pressures toward accommodation rather than resistance.
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    • 2.Principled resistance historically derives from formal ethical theory, rights frameworks, and collective organizing—not uniquely from care-based reasoning.
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    • 3.Attributing moral authority to maternal practices risks essentializing women's roles and romanticizing caregiving as inherently politically liberatory.
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    • 1.Maternal caregiving requires constant ethical judgment about vulnerability, needs, and competing interests, developing practical moral reasoning.
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    • 2.Care-based moral frameworks have historically motivated principled social resistance, from abolition to labor rights, grounded in relational ethics.
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    • 3.Capacities like attentiveness, responsibility, and responsiveness cultivated through care practice are essential to sustaining principled dissent.
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