Relational Autonomy : Feminist Perspectives on Automony, Agency, and the Social Self.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780195352603Subject(s): Agent (Philosophy) | Autonomy | Feminist theory | Self (Philosophy)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Relational Autonomy : Feminist Perspectives on Automony, Agency, and the Social SelfDDC classification: 305.42 LOC classification: HQ1190.R45 2000Online resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Autonomy Refigured -- I: AUTONOMY AND THE SOCIAL -- 1 Autonomy, Social Disruption, and Women -- 2 Autonomy and the Social Self -- 3 Feeling Crazy: Self-Worth and the Social Character of Responsibility -- 4 Autonomy and the Feminist Intuition -- 5 Individuals, Responsibility, and the Philosophical Imagination -- 6 Imagining Oneself Otherwise -- 7 Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self?: Opposites Attract! -- 8 The Perversion of Autonomy and the Subjection of Women: Discourses of Social Advocacy at Century's End -- II: RELATIONAL AUTONOMY IN CONTEXT -- 9 Choice and Control in Feminist Bioethics -- 10 Autonomy and Interdependence: Quandaries in Genetic Decision Making -- 11 Relational Autonomy, Self-Trust, and Health Care for Patients Who Are Oppressed -- 12 Relational Autonomy and Freedom of Expression -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
This collection of original essays explores the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge and enrich contemporary philosophical debates about agency, identity, and moral responsibility. The essays analyze the complex ways in which oppression can impair an agent's capacity for autonomy, and investigate connections, neglected by standard accounts, between autonomy and other aspects of the agent, including self-conception, self-worth, memory, and the imagination.
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