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 is an original and timely contribution to current debate surrounding the notion of identity and subjectivity.
1 Questions of the self: questions of selves Part I Learning from experience 2 Using autobiographical accounts 3 Other lives: learning from their experiences 4 Theory and experience: epistemology, methodology and autobiography Part II Constructing ourselves 5 Wanting and not wanting to belong: acceptance and rejection 6 Feelings, emotions, rationality, politics 7 Emotions of the self: self-esteem and self-creation 8 Autonomy: personal and political Part III Changing 9 Communication and change 10 Changing selves: personal and collective change
