Morwenna Griffiths

Feminisms and the Self

The Web of Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What does the politics of the self mean for a politics of liberation? This text 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. This study 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's book contributes to the debate surrounding the notion of identity and subjectivity.

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Feminisms and the Self is both a critique and a construction of feminist philosophy, bringing an original contribution to the current debate surrounding identity and subjectivity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415098212
• ISBN-10: 0415098211
• Artikelnr.: 22458391

Autorenporträt

Morwenna Griffiths is Lecturer in Education at the University of Notting¿ham. With Margaret Whitford, she co-edited Feminist Perspectives in Philosöphy. She was a founding member of the Society for Women in Philosophy and co-editor of its newsletter, Women's Philosophical Review.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Questions of the self: questions of selves Part I Learning from
experience 2 Using autobiographical accounts 3 Other lives: learning from
their experiences 4 Theory and experience: epistemology, methodology and
autobiography Part II Constructing ourselves 5 Wanting and not wanting to
belong: acceptance and rejection 6 Feelings, emotions, rationality,
politics 7 Emotions of the self: self-esteem and self-creation 8 Autonomy:
personal and political Part III Changing 9 Communication and change 10
Changing selves: personal and collective change