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

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index.

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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.

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.

English.

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