Feminist Relational Theory: The Significance of Oppression and Structures of Power

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 13 (2):49-55 (2020)
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Danielle Wenner has crafted novel arguments in defense of republican accounts of freedom. I learned a lot from her discussion of how Philip Pettit's neorepublican account of freedom as nondomination does a better job than standard accounts of freedom as noninterference of explaining how power over an agent can restrict their freedom to act autonomously. The real crux of Wenner's argument, however, is that freedom as nondomination can do this work in a way that those who defend an account of relational autonomy cannot. I will start with Wenner's defense of freedom as nondomination and of what it can do as the background for assessing her critique of relational autonomy. The upshot of my comments will be that Wenner...

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Feminist relational theory.Christine M. Koggel, Ami Harbin & Jennifer J. Llewellyn - 2022 - Journal of Global Ethics 18 (1):1-14.

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