Being Yourself Essays on Identity, Action, and Social Life,9780742514775

Being Yourself Essays on Identity, Action, and Social Life

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ISBN13: 9780742514775
ISBN10: 0742514773
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-02-23
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

The extent, variety, and intractability of misogynist gender systems and the intersections between gender inequity and other forms of injustice expose tensions between the value of individuality and the disvalue of systematic social and economic subordination. The former presupposes a type of freedom that the latter aims to suppress. These essays develop an action theory that takes this contradiction into account--an action theory for feminists and other social dissidents. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author Biography

Diana Tietjens Meyers is professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
Part 1 The Autonomous Agent
Personal Autonomy and the Paradox of Feminine Socialization
3(10)
Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self? Opposites Attract!
13(36)
Decentralizing Autonomy: Five Faces of Selfhood
49(28)
The Personal, the Political, and Psycho-Corporeal Agency
77(18)
Part 2 Moral Reflection
The Socialized Individual and Individual Autonomy: An Intersection between Philosophy and Psychology
95(16)
Moral Reflection: Beyond Impartial Reason
111(26)
Emotion and Heterodox Moral Perception: An Essay in Moral Social Psychology
137(22)
Narrative and Moral Life
159(24)
Part 3 Agency in Hostile Social Contexts
Cultural Diversity: Rights, Goals, and Competing Values
183(20)
Feminism and Women's Autonomy: The Challenge of Female Genital Cutting
203(22)
Rights in Collision: A Nonpunitive, Compensatory Remedy for Abusive Speech
225(32)
Gendered Work and Individual Autonomy
257(18)
Feminine Mortality Imagery: Feminist Ripostes
275(24)
Bibliography 299(12)
Index 311(8)
About the Author 319

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