Feminisms and the self : the web of identity / Morwenna Griffiths.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffiths, Morwenna, 1948-

Griffiths M Staff, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Identity (Psychology).

Change.

Autonomy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Questions of the self: questions of selves; Using autobiographical accounts; Other lives: learning from their experiences; Theory and experience: epistemology, methodology and autobiography; Wanting and not wanting to belong: acceptance and rejection; Feelings, emotions, rationality, politics; Emotions of the self: self-esteem and self-creation; Autonomy: personal and political; Communication and change; Changing selves: personal and collective change; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-96183-9

1-134-96184-7

0-585-46052-3

0-203-20424-7

1-280-32389-2

9780203204245

OCLC:

277650922