Feminist Second Thoughts About Free Agency
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Hypatia
- Vol. 5 (3) , 47-64
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1990.tb00605.x
Abstract
This essay suggests that common themes in recent feminist ethical thought can dislodge the guiding assumptions of traditional theories of free agency and thereby foster an account of freedom which might be more fruitful for feminist discussion of moral and political agency. The essay proposes constructing that account around a condition ofnormative‐competence. It argues that this view permits insight into why women's labor of reclaiming and augmenting their agency is both difficult and possible in a sexist society.Keywords
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