Product Description: Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights collects thirteen new essays that analyze how human agency relates to poverty and human rights respectively as well as how agency mediates issues concerning poverty and social and economic human rights...read more

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How do patriarchal representations of gender impact on women's lives? What about their effects on men's attitudes toward women? How can the deleterious effects of this hostile cultural environment be overcome? These are the principal questions Gender in the Mirror poses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: How is women’s conception of self affected by the caregiving responsibilities traditionally assigned to them and by the personal vulnerabilities imposed on them? If institutions of male dominance profoundly influence women’s lives and minds, how can women form judgments about their own best interests and overcome oppression? Can feminist politics survive in face of the diversity of women’s experience, which is shaped by race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, as well as by gender? Exploring such questions, leading feminist thinkers have reinvigorated work on the concept of self and personal identity, as demonstrated by the discussions in this insightful volume...read more

Product Description: Diana Tietjens Meyers examines the political underpinnings of psychoanalytic feminism, analyzing the relation between the nature of the self and the structure of good societies. She argues that impartial reason--the approach to moral reflection which has dominated 20th-century Anglo-American philosophy--is inadequate for addressing real world injustices...read more

Product Description: Book by Meyers, Diana Tietjens

In 'Self, Society, and Personal Choice,' Diana T. Meyers examines the question of personal autonomy: the question of what it is to know what one really wants... to discern the desires of one's authentic self.. and to act in accordance with those desires. She argues that autonomy competency... a repertory introspective, imaginative, reasoning, communicative, and volitional skills... enables people to assert control over their lives. Since this competency flourishes or languishes largely as a result of childrearing practices, it is not surprising that traditional feminine and traditional masculine socialization develop autonomy competency in different respects and to different degrees. Though the forms that many women's autonomy take are often overlooked, studies support the conclusion that women as a group tend to be less autonomous than men. Meyers maintains that such suppression is a serious injustice, compromising individual self-respect and undermining equality of opportunity. Using examples from literature, film, and life itself, as well as examining moral and philosophical ideas of personal autonomy, the author discusses what kind of existence is desirable.

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Product Description: Twenty distinguished philosophers and social theorists have contributed original papers to this stimulating investigation into the nature of the economically just society. Collectively, and in a remarkably coherent fashion, these papers set out the problems of contemporary social theory within the context of the distributive justice vs...read more