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

• Autore: Griffiths Morwenna <1948, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.42/01
• Soggetto topico: Feminist theory; Identity (Psychology); Change; Autonomy
• 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 like feminism, Griffiths book
• Titolo autorizzato: Feminisms and the self
• ISBN: 1-134-96183-9; 1-134-96184-7; 0-585-46052-3; 0-203-20424-7; 1-280-32389-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783865403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II