Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 344
Trim: 6¼ x 8¾
978-0-7425-1477-5 • Hardback • February 2004 • $151.00 • (£117.00)
978-0-7425-1478-2 • Paperback • February 2004 • $59.00 • (£45.00)
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Diana Tietjens Meyers is professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
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 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