Book Cover -- Feminisms and the Self -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Questions of the self -- 1 INTRODUCTION: WEBS OF IDENTITY -- 2 PURPOSES AND INTENTIONS -- 3 CONTEXTS -- 4 METHODOLOGY AND ITS POLITICS -- 5 AUDIENCE -- 6 CONTENT OF CHAPTERS: A SUMMARY -- Part I Learning from experience -- 2 Using autobiographical accounts -- 1 INTRODUCTION: CAVEATS AND ASSUMPTIONS -- 2 SPEAKING FOR MYSELF -- 3 THE PARTICIPANTS IN A DISCUSSION -- 4 EAVESDROPPERS -- 5 THE UNNOTICED QUESTION -- 6 CONCLUSIONS ABOUT SPEAKING FOR MYSELF -- 7 MEMORIES OF MY OWN LIFE -- 3 Other lives -- 1 LISTENING TO OTHERS -- 2 FINDING OTHERS TO LISTEN TO -- 3 USING THEORY AND THE LIMITATIONS OF USING IT -- 4 USING DESCRIPTIONS OF EXPERIENCE -- 5 CONCLUSIONS ABOUT LEARNING FROM OTHERS -- 6 LIFE STORIES -- 4 Theory and experience -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGIES: POLITICS AND SUBJECTIVITY -- 3 FROM EPISTEMOLOGICAL PRECEPT TO METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE -- 4 CRITICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- 5 CONCLUSIONS -- Part II Constructing ourselves -- 5 Wanting and not wanting to belong: acceptance and rejection -- 1 QUESTIONS FOR WOMEN: QUESTIONS FOR PHILOSOPHERS -- 2 SELF-IDENTITY IN FEMINIST THINKING -- 3 SELF-IDENTITY FOR WOMEN AND THE QUESTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY -- 4 CONSTRUCTING A SELF -- 5 CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION OF A WEB OF IDENTITY -- 6 Feelings, emotions, rationality, politics -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 EMOTION AND POLITICS -- 3 A POLITICS OF RATIONALITY -- 7 Emotions of the self -- 1 SELF-ESTEEM -- 2 SELF-CREATION AND EMOTIONS -- 8 Autonomy: personal and political -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 GENDER STEREOTYPES, PHILOSOPHERS AND AUTONOMY -- 3 PERSONAL AUTONOMY -- 4 PUBLIC AUTONOMY -- Part III Changing -- 9 Communication and change -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 A THEORY OF LANGUAGE -- 3 EXPRESSING ONESELF AND COMMUNICATION WITH OTHERS.

4 COMMUNICATION IN THE ACADEMY -- 5 CHANGING LANGUAGE: POLITICAL CHANGE AND LANGUAGE -- 10 Changing selves: personal and collective change -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 AUTHENTICITY -- 3 CREATING CHANGE -- 4 PATCHWORK -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

What does the politics of the self mean for a politics of liberation? Morwenna Griffiths argues that mainstream philosophy, particularly the anglo-analytic tradition, needs to tackle the issues of the self, identity, autonomy and self creation. Although identity has been a central concern of feminist thought it has in the main been excluded from philosophical analysis. Feminisms and the Self is both a critique and a construction of feminist philosophy. After the powerful challenges that postmodernism and poststructuralism posed to liberation movements like feminism, Griffiths book is an original and timely contribution to current debate surrounding the notion of identity and subjectivity.

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