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Being yourself: living a life that is truly your own, that expresses your unique personality and your distinctive values. Many people want to live such a life. Being Yourself asks what it takes to do so. It examines questions about the self - the individual who acts - together with questions about self-expression - the relations between the self and action. It explains self-knowledge and self-direction in terms of a repertory of skills that gives people insight into who they are, who they want to be, and how they want to engage with the world. Unlike other accounts of self and action, Being Yourself takes into account the multidimensionality of the self - embodiment, interpersonal ties, nonconscious desires, and enculturation as well as rationality. It accents the ways in which atypical emotional responses, empathy, and oppositional imagery can contribute to moral understanding. It argues that repressive regimes cannot completely crush people's determination to live lives of their own, but it shows why it is vital to seek social changes that dismantle obstacles to this kind of life.
Table of Contents
Part 4 The Autonomous Agent
Chapter 5 Personal Autonomy and the Paradox of Feminine Socialization
Chapter 6 Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self? Opposites Attract!
Chapter 7 Decentralizing Autonomy: Five Faces of Selfhood
Chapter 8 The Personal, the Political, and Psycho-corporeal Identity
Part 9 Moral Reflection
Chapter 10 The Socialized Individual and Individual Autonomy: An Intersection between Philosophy and Psychology
Chapter 11 Moral Reflection: Beyond Impartial Reason
Chapter 12 Emotion and Heterodox Moral Perception: An Essay in Moral Social Psychology
Chapter 13 Narrative and Moral Life
Part 14 Agency in Hostile Social Contexts
Chapter 15 Cultural Diversity: Rights, Goals, and Competing Values
Chapter 16 Feminism and Women's Autonomy: The Challenge of Female Genital Cutting
Chapter 17 Rights in Collision: A Non-Punitive, Compensatory Remedy for Abusive Speech
Chapter 18 Gendered Work and Individual Autonomy
Chapter 19 Feminine Mortality Imagery: Feminist Ripostes
Part 20 Bibliography
Part 21 Index
Product details
| Published | Feb 23 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 344 |
| ISBN | 9780742571334 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Series | Feminist Constructions |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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