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Toward a Feminist Conception of Self-Respect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Robin S. Dillon
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The concept of self-respect is often invoked in feminist theorizing. But both women's too-common experiences of struggling to have self-respect and the results of feminist critiques of related moral concepts suggest the need for feminist critique and reconceptualization of self-respect. I argue that a familiar conception of self-respect is masculinist, thus less accessible to women and less than conducive to liberation. Emancipatory theory and practice require a suitably feminist conception of self-respect; I propose one such conception.

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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Winter 1992, pp. 52 - 69
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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