Feminisms and the self : the web of identity /

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 feminis...

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Main Author: Griffiths, Morwenna, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 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.