Relational Autonomy
Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self
Published on 17. February 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-19-512334-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 analyse 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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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-512334-0 (9780195123340)
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Catriona Mackenzie | Natalie Stoljar
Relational Autonomy
Feminist Perspectives on Automony, Agency, and the Social Self
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12/2000
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Oxford University Press
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Catriona Mackenzie | Natalie Stoljar
Relational Autonomy
Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self
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03/2000
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Content
Introduction: Autonomy refigured ; PART 1: 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 ; PART 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