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UNINA9910451520603321 |
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Autore |
Griffiths Morwenna <1948, > |
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Feminisms and the self : the web of identity / / Morwenna Griffiths |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995 |
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1-134-96184-7 |
0-585-46052-3 |
0-203-20424-7 |
1-280-32389-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (227 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Feminist theory |
Identity (Psychology) |
Change |
Autonomy |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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