Part 3 Preface Part 4 The Autonomous Agent Chapter 5 Personal Autonomy and the Paradox of Feminine Socialization Chapter 6 Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self? Opposites Attract! Chapter 7 Decentralizing Autonomy: Five Faces of Selfhood Chapter 8 The Personal, the Political, and Psycho-corporeal Identity Part 9 Moral Reflection Chapter 10 The Socialized Individual and Individual Autonomy: An Intersection between Philosophy and Psychology Chapter 11 Moral Reflection: Beyond Impartial Reason Chapter 12 Emotion and Heterodox Moral Perception: An Essay in Moral Social Psychology Chapter 13 Narrative and Moral Life Part 14 Agency in Hostile Social Contexts Chapter 15 Cultural Diversity: Rights, Goals, and Competing Values Chapter 16 Feminism and Women's Autonomy: The Challenge of Female Genital Cutting Chapter 17 Rights in Collision: A Non-Punitive, Compensatory Remedy for Abusive Speech Chapter 18 Gendered Work and Individual Autonomy Chapter 19 Feminine Mortality Imagery: Feminist Ripostes Part 20 Bibliography Part 21 Index
Diana Tietjens Meyers is professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Diana Tietjens Meyers is one of the most subtle and complex
philosophers of feminist autonomy and agency writing today. In this
book, she has presented a powerful analysis of the forms of
autonomy in contemporary social life, and the impasses, ruses, and
limitations that can impede autonomous agency. An original
contribution to one of the most vexing and contested concepts in
feminist philosophy.
*Elizabeth Grosz, Jean Fox O'Barr Women's Studies Professor, Duke
University*
Meyers's style is elegant, insightful, and altogether gripping in
places. Peppered with personal experiences and analogies, this book
is likely to be pleasing to any interested reader.
*Metapsychology Online*
Diana Meyers's Being Yourself is an important and original theory
of autonomy that manages, by virtue of both its philosophical rigor
and its keen eye for the realm of practice, to show how moral
agents can exercise their authentic selves in a world where
socialization and political barriers prevail. Meyers's discussion
of autonomy and female genital cutting contains the strongest
argument I know for viewing autonomy within culture rather than
against it.
*Marion Smiley, J. P. Morgan Chase Chair in Ethics, Brandeis
University*
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