Part 1. The autonomous agent. Personal autonomy and the paradox of feminine socialization -- Intersectional identity and the authentic self? Opposites attract! -- Decentralizing autonomy: five faces of selfhood -- The personal, the political, and psycho-corporeal agency. Part 2. Moral reflection. The socialized individual and individual autonomy: an intersection between philosophy and psychology -- Moral reflection: beyond impartial reason -- Emotion and heterodox moral perception: an essay in moral social psychology -- Narrative and moral life. Part 3. Agency in hostile social contexts. Cultural diversity: rights, goals, and competing values -- Feminism and women's autonomy: the challenge of female genital cutting -- Rights in collision: a nonpunitive, compensatory remedy for abusive speech -- Gendered work and individual autonomy -- Feminine mortality imagery: feminist ripostes
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index
