Being Yourself Essays on Identity, Action, and Social Life

by Meyers, Diana Tietjens

• ISBN13: 9780742514782
• ISBN10: 0742514781
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The extent, variety, and intractability of misogynist gender systems and the intersections between gender inequity and other forms of injustice expose tensions between the value of individuality and the disvalue of systematic social and economic subordination. The former presupposes a type of freedom that the latter aims to suppress. These essays develop an action theory that takes this contradiction into account--an action theory for feminists and other social dissidents. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author Biography

Diana Tietjens Meyers is professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
Part 1 The Autonomous Agent
1 Personal Autonomy and the Paradox of Feminine Socialization	3	(10)
2 Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self? Opposites Attract!	13	(36)
3 Decentralizing Autonomy: Five Faces of Selfhood	49	(28)
4 The Personal, the Political, and Psycho-Corporeal Agency	77	(18)
Part 2 Moral Reflection
5 The Socialized Individual and Individual Autonomy: An Intersection between Philosophy and Psychology	95	(16)
6 Moral Reflection: Beyond Impartial Reason	111	(26)
7 Emotion and Heterodox Moral Perception: An Essay in Moral Social Psychology	137	(22)
8 Narrative and Moral Life	159	(24)
Part 3 Agency in Hostile Social Contexts
9 Cultural Diversity: Rights, Goals, and Competing Values	183	(20)
10 Feminism and Women's Autonomy: The Challenge of Female Genital Cutting	203	(22)
11 Rights in Collision: A Nonpunitive, Compensatory Remedy for Abusive Speech	225	(32)
12 Gendered Work and Individual Autonomy	257	(18)
13 Feminine Mortality Imagery: Feminist Ripostes	275	(24)
Bibliography	299	(12)
Index	311	(8)
About the Author	319