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Relational Autonomy : Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self.
Title:
Relational Autonomy : Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self.
Author:
Mackenzie, Catriona.
ISBN:
9780195352603
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (327 pages)
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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