Feminists Rethink The Self

ISBN-13: 9780813320830 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 292 str.

Diana Tietjens Meyers; Diana Tietjens Meyers; Alison Jaggar

Opis

How is women's conception of self affected by the caregiving responsibilities traditionally assigned to them and by the personal vulnerabilities imposed on them? If institutions of male dominance profoundly influence women's lives and minds, how can women form judgments about their own best interests and overcome oppression? Can feminist politics survive in face of the diversity of women's experience, which is shaped by race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, as well as by gender? Exploring such questions, leading feminist thinkers have reinvigorated work on the concept of self and personal identity, as demonstrated by the discussions in this insightful volume.The concerns that animate feminist scholarship have prompted feminist philosophers to sideline the theme of individualism and to focus on the theme of intersubjectivity. In conceptualizing the self, the contributors to this volume highlight emotional bonds among people, the stories people tell one another, and the systems of categories and behavioral norms that unite and divide groups of people. Topics addressed include sexual violence and the self, the social self and autonomy, the narrative self and integrity, self-ownership and the body, forgetting yourself and your race, group membership and personal identity, grief and gender, sympathy and women's diversity, emotion and emancipatory epistemology, and dependency and justice. This volume will be important reading for students of feminist theory, ethics, and social and political philosophy.

Spis treści

Feminist Theory and Politics -- Introduction -- One Outliving Oneself Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity -- two Autonomy and Social Relationships Rethinking the Feminist Critique -- three Picking Up Pieces Lives, Stories, and Integrity -- four Ownership and the Body -- five Forgetting Yourself -- six Queering the Center by Centering the Queer Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular lews -- seven Good Grief, It’s Plato! -- eight Sympathy and Solidarity On a Tightrope with Scheler -- nine Emotion and Heterodox Moral Perception An Essay in Moral Social Psychology -- ten Human Dependency and Rawlsian Equality -- About the Book and Editor -- About the Contributors

O autorze

Diana Meyers