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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451520603321

Autore

Griffiths Morwenna <1948, >

Titolo

Feminisms and the self : the web of identity / / Morwenna Griffiths

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

ISBN

1-134-96184-7

0-585-46052-3

0-203-20424-7

1-280-32389-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/01

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Identity (Psychology)

Change

Autonomy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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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