Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression: Philosophical Perspectives 9780415840132, 9780203768778

Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions,

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English Pages [247] Year 2014

Table of contents :
Cover
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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 Autonomy
7 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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