Relational autonomy : feminist perspectives on automony, agency, and the social self / edited by Catriona Mackenzie and Natalie Stoljar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mackenzie, Catriona, editor.

Stoljar, Natalie, 1961- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Autonomy.

Agent (Philosophy).

Self (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These essays explore 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 philosophical debates about agency, identity, and moral responsibility.

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 Bioethics10 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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773152-X

1-280-53517-2

0-19-535260-2

OCLC:

433050065