Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression: Philosophical Perspectives
Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions, on personal autonomy. The essays in this volume are concerned with the philosophical concept of autonomy or self-governance and with the impact on relational autonomy of the oppressive circumstances persons must navigate. They address on the one hand questions of the theoretical structure of personal autonomy given various kinds of social oppression, and on the other, how cont…
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- Full title :Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression : Philosophical Perspectives
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Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions, on personal autonomy. The essays in this volume are concerned with the philosophical concept of autonomy or self-governance and with the impact on relational autonomy of the oppressive circumstances persons must navigate. They address on the one hand questions of the theoretical structure of personal autonomy given various kinds of social oppression, and on the other, how contexts of social oppression make autonomy difficult or impossible.
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- Publication Date:2014
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- Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
- Place of Publication:Hoboken
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2014
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- Description:Online-Ressource (247 Seiten)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415840132, 0415840139
- oclc:on1020497885
- LC Classification:B808.67 .P47 2014
- Dewey Decimal:128
Table of Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: Theoretical Problems: How Should We Conceptualize Relational Autonomy?; 1 Is Social-Relational Autonomy a Plausible Ideal?; 2 Gender Oppression and Weak Substantive Theories of Autonomy; 3 Responding to the Agency Dilemma: Autonomy, Adaptive Preferences, and Internalized Oppression; 4 Autonomy, Self-Knowledge, and Oppression; 5 Autonomy and the Autobiographical Perspective; PART II: Practical Problems: The Internalization of Oppression and Questions of Autonomy.
6 "Living Constantly at Tiptoe Stance": Social Scripts, Psychological Freedom, and Autonomy7 Stereotype Threat, Social Belonging, and Relational Autonomy; 8 Adaptations to Oppression: Preference, Autonomy, and Resistance; 9 Autonomy Under Oppression: Tensions, Trade-Offs, and Resistance; 10 Honky-Tonk Women: Prostitution and the Right to Bodily Autonomy; 11 Jewish Self-Hatred, Moral Criticism, and Autonomy; Contributors; Index.
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