ISBN:
0585460523
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9780585460529
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0203204247
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9780203204245
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 220 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Feminisms and the self
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Feminist theory
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Identity (Psychology)
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Change
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Autonomy
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Autonomy
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Change
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Feminist theory
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Identity (Psychology)
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Identidad (Psicología)
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Cambio social
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Autonomía
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Autonomy
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Change
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Feminist theory
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Identity (Psychology)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Chapter 1 Questions of the self: questions of selves -- part Part I Learning from experience -- chapter 2 Using autobiographical accounts -- chapter 3 Other lives: learning from their experiences -- chapter 4 Theory and experience: epistemology, methodology and autobiography -- part Part II Constructing ourselves -- chapter 5 Wanting and not wanting to belong: acceptance and rejection -- chapter 6 Feelings, emotions, rationality, politics -- chapter 7 Emotions of the self: self-esteem and self-creation -- chapter 8 Autonomy: personal and political -- part Part III Changing -- chapter 9 Communication and change -- chapter 10 Changing selves: personal and collective change.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index. - Print version record
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
