Autonomy, Gender, Politics

This second volume in the Feminist Philosophy series focuses on the topic of autonomy in the context of gender politics. Marilyn Freidman's project concentrates primarily on the notion of personal autonomy as the self-referential capacity to define the terms of one's own life. She develops a new account of autonomy that can bridge the gap between individualist and social conceptions of the self and between theoretical and practical concerns about autonomy.