Recent feminist philosophy has engaged in a love-hate relationship with autonomy. In the
1970s, feminists praised the ideal of autonomy and extolled its liberatory potential for …

Autonomy is usually understood by feminist writers in the same way that it is understood
within moral psychology generally, namely, as self-government or self-direction: being …

This collection of new essays examines philosophical issues at the intersection of feminism
and autonomy studies. Are autonomy and independence useful goals for women and …

Feminist philosophy has opened up new areas of investigation across a wide range of sub-
fields in mainstream Anglophone philosophy, Continental philosophy and applied ethics …

Verzameling feministische essays over het concept'autonomie'. Bevat: Autonomy, social
disruption, and women/door Marilyn Friedman; Autonomy and the social self/door Linda …

John Christman has argued that constitutively relational accounts of autonomy, as defended
by some feminist theorists, are problematically perfectionist about the human good. I argue …

Feminist efforts to theorize the impact of social oppression on autonomy must negotiate what
Serene Khader (2011) refers to as the “agency dilemma.” This is the challenge of …

Women have historically been prevented from living autonomously by systematic injustice,
subordination, and oppression. The lingering effects of these practices have prompted many …

Feminist socially constitutive conceptions of autonomy make the presence of idealized
social conditions necessary for autonomy. I argue that such conceptions cannot, when …

How can we think about identities in the wake of feminist critiques of identity and identity
politics? In Identities and Freedom, Allison Weir rethinks conceptions of individual and …