Feminisms and the self : the web of identity /

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Author / Creator:Griffiths, Morwenna, 1948-
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Description:1 online resource (x, 220 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11125982
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ISBN:0585460523
9780585460529
0203204247
9780203204245
1280323892
9781280323898
1134961847
9781134961849
9786610323890
6610323895
9780415098205
0415098203
9780415098212
0415098211
0415098203
0415098211
Notes:Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:What does the politics of the self mean for a politics of liberation? Morwenna Griffiths argues that mainstream philosophy, particularly the anglo-analytic tradition, needs to tackle the issues of the self, identity, autonomy and self creation. Although identity has been a central concern of feminist thought it has in the main been excluded from philosophical analysis. Feminisms and the Self is both a critique and a construction of feminist philosophy. After the powerful challenges that postmodernism and poststructuralism posed to liberation movements like feminism, Griffiths book.
Other form:Print version: Griffiths, Morwenna, 1948- Feminisms and the self. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 0415098203