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The self is a pivotal philosophical topic. This collection of papers by feminists addresses issues including sexual violence and the self, the social self and autonomy, the narrative self and integrity, self-ownership and the body, and forgetting yourself and your race.
List of contents
Introduction, 1 Outliving Oneself: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity, 2 Autonomy and Social Relationships: Rethinking the Feminist Critique, 3 Picking Up Pieces: Lives, Stories, and Integrity, 4 Ownership and the Body, 5 Forgetting Yourself, 6 Queering the Center by Centering the Queer: Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular Jews, 7 Good Grief, It's Plato!, 8 Sympathy and Solidarity: On a Tightrope with Scheler, 9 Emotion and Heterodox Moral Perception: An Essay in Moral Social Psychology, 10 Human Dependency and Rawlsian Equality
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Diana Meyers
Summary
The self is a pivotal philosophical topic. This collection of papers by feminists addresses issues including sexual violence and the self, the social self and autonomy, the narrative self and integrity, self-ownership and the body, and forgetting yourself and your race.
