Comprehensive Bibliography

In the interests of concision and readability, the present essay mentions only some of the representative works on the feminist literature on the self. These cited works are collated in the Bibliography which appears in the next section of this essay. However, the feminist literature on the self is vast. Lisa Cassidy, Diana Tietjens Meyers, and Ellie Anderson have put together a comprehensive bibliography of this literature; it attempts to cite all of the books and articles that are relevant to the present entry. This comprehensive bibliography is linked into the present essay as the following supplementary document:

Comprehensive Bibliography of Feminist Perspectives on the Self

Readers are therefore encouraged to pursue additional references by following the above link.

References

The following works are cited in the entry.

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• Addelson, Kathryn Pyne, 1994, Moral Passages: Toward a Collectivist Moral Theory, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Ahmed, Sara, 2004, The Cultural Politics of Emotion, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, Living a Feminist Life, Durham and London: Duke University Press. (Scholar)
• Alarcón, Norma, 1991, “The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism”, in Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture, and Ideology, Héctor Calderón and José David Saldívar (eds.), Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 28–40. doi:10.1215/9780822382355-005 (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, “Conjugating Subjects in the Age of Multiculturalism”, in Mapping Multiculturalism, Avery F. Gordon and Christopher Newfield (eds.), Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 127–148. (Scholar)
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• –––, 2017, Rape and Resistance, Malden, MA: Polity Press. (Scholar)
• Al-Saji, Alia, 2014, “A Phenomenology of Hesitation: Interrupting Racializing Habits of Seeing”, in Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, Emily Lee (ed.), Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 133–172. (Scholar)
• Anzaldúa, Gloria, 1987, Borderlands: The New Mestiza/La Frontera, San Francisco: Spinters/Aunt Lute. (Scholar)
• Arruzza, Cinzia, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser, 2019, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, London and New York: Verso. (Scholar)
• Babbitt, Susan, 1993, “Feminism and Objective Interests: The Role of Transformation Experiences in Rational Deliberation”, in Feminist Epistemologies, Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter (eds.), New York: Routledge, 245–265. (Scholar)
• Baier, Annette C., 1987, “The Need for More than Justice”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 17(sup1): 41–56. doi:10.1080/00455091.1987.10715928 (Scholar)
• Bartky, Sandra Lee, 1990, Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression, New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203825259 (Scholar)
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• –––1992, Situating the Self, Cambridge: Polity.
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• Bettcher, Talia Mae, 2014, “Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Rethinking Trans Oppression and Resistance”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 39(2): 383–406. doi:10.1086/673088 (Scholar)
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• Bordo, Susan, 1993, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Braidotti, Rosi, 2006, Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics, Malden, MA: Polity Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, “Posthuman Feminist Theory”, in Disch and Hawkesworth 2016, 673–698. (Scholar)
• Brennan, Teresa, 2004, The Transmission of Affect, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Brison, Susan J., 2002, Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “Personal Identity and Relational Selves”, in Garry, Khader, Stone 2017, 218–230. (Scholar)
• Brown, Wendy, 1998, Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Theory, Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Butler, Judith, 1990, “Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic Discourse”, in Feminism/Postmodernism, Linda J. Nicholson (ed.), New York: Routledge, chapter 13. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, Giving an Account of Oneself, New York: Fordham University Press. (Scholar)
• Butler, Judith, and Athena Athanasiou, 2013, Dispossession: The Performative in the Political, Malden, MA: Polity Press. (Scholar)
• Cahill, Ann J., 2001, Rethinking Rape, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Campbell, Sue, 2003, Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Card, Claudia, 1996, The Unnatural Lottery: Character and Moral Luck, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. (Scholar)
• Cavarero, Adriana, 1997 [2000], Tu che mi guardi, tu che mi racconti, Milan: Giagiacomo Feltrinelli. Translated as Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood, Paul A. Kottman (trans), (Warwick Studies in European Philosophy), London: Routledge, 2000. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016, Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude, Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
• Chodorow, Nancy, 1981, “On ‘The Reproduction of Mothering’: A Methodological Debate, part 4”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 6(3): 500–514. doi:10.1086/493820 (Scholar)
• Code, Lorraine, 1987, “Second Persons”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 17(sup1): 357–382. doi:10.1080/00455091.1987.10715942 (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “Self, Subjectivity, and the Instituted Social Imaginary”, in The Oxford Handbook of the Self, Shaun Gallagher (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Collins, Patricia Hill, 1990, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consiousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Boston: Unwin Hyman. (Scholar)
• Crenshaw, Kimberlé William, 1991, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics”, in Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in Law and Gender, Katherine T. Bartlett and Rosanne Kennedy (eds), Boulder, CO: Westview Press, chapter 4. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993, “Beyond Race and Misogyny: Black Feminism and 2 Live Crew”, in Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech, and the First Amendment, Mari J. Matsuda, Charles R. Lawrence III, Richard Delgado, and Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (eds), Boulder, CO: Westview Press, chapter 5. (Scholar)
• Cudd, Ann E., 2006, Analyzing Oppression, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0195187431.001.0001 (Scholar)
• de Lauretis, Teresa, 1986, “Feminist Studies/Critical Studies: Issues, Terms, Contexts”, in Feminist Studies/Critical Studies, Teresa de Lauretis (ed.), Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, chapter 1. (Scholar)
• DiQuinzio, Patrice, 1999, The Impossibility of Motherhood: Feminism, Individualism and the Problem of Mothering, New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203820704 (Scholar)
• Disch, Lisa and Mary Hawkesworth (eds.), 2016, The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199328581.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Feder, Ellen K., 2014, Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Fischer, Clara, 2014, Gendered Readings of Change: A Feminist-Pragmatist Approach, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. doi:10.1057/9781137342720 (Scholar)
• Fricker, Miranda, 2007, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Friedman, Marilyn A., 1993, What are Friends For?, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Garry, Ann, Serene J. Khader, and Alison Stone (eds.), 2017, The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315758152 (Scholar)
• Gilligan, Carol, 1982, In a Different Voice, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1987, “Moral Orientation and Moral Development”, in Kittay and Meyers 1987: 31–46. (Scholar)
• Govier, Trudy, 1993, “Self-Trust, Autonomy, and Self-Esteem”, Hypatia, 8(1): 99–120. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1993.tb00630.x (Scholar)
• Grosz, Elizabeth, 1994, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Hale, C. Jacob, 1998, “Tracing a Ghostly Memory in My Throat: Reflections on Ftm Feminist Voice and Agency”, in Men Doing Feminism, Tom Digby (ed), New York: Routledge, 99–130. (Scholar)
• Hall, Kim Q., 2009, “Queer Breasted Experience”, in “You’ve Changed”: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity, Laurie J. Shrage (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, chapter 7. (Scholar)
• Haraway, Donna, 2008, When Species Meet, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
• Hekman, Susan J., 1995, Moral Voices, Moral Selves, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. (Scholar)
• Held, Virginia, 1987, “Feminism and Moral Theory”, in Kittay and Meyers 1987, pp. 111–128. Also in Meyers 1997: chapter 32. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, The Ethics of Care: Personal, Political, and Global, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0195180992.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Heyes, Cressida, 2007, Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies, New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310535.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Irigaray, Luce, 1985a, Speculum of the Other Woman, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1985b, This Sex which is not one, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993, Ethics of Sexual Difference, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Jaggar, Alison M., 1983, Feminist Politics and Human Nature, Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Khanna, Ranjana, 2012, “Touching, Unbelonging, and the Absence of Affect”, Feminist Theory, 13(2): 213–232. doi:10.1177/1464700112442649 (Scholar)
• King, Deborah K., 1988, “Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14(1): 42–72. Also in Meyers 1997: chapter 12. doi:10.1086/494491 (Scholar)
• Kittay, Eva Feder, 1999, Love's Labor, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Kittay, Eva Feder and Diana T. Meyers (eds.), 1987, Women and Moral Theory, Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Koziej, Stephanie, 2019, “Towards a Tender Sexuality: From Freud’s Implicit Taboo on Adult Erotic Tenderness, to the Unexplored Tender Critical Potential of Mitchell and Perel’s Clinical Practice.”, Psychoanalytic Psychology, 36(4): 342–350. doi:10.1037/pap0000258 (Scholar)
• Kristeva, Julia, 1980, Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, Leon S. Roudiez (ed.). Thomas Gora, Alice Jardine, and Leon S. Roudiez (trans.), (European Perspectives), New York: Columbia University Press. Translation of several of her French essays. (Scholar)
• –––, 1983 [1987], Histoires d’amour, Paris: Editions Denoël. Translated as Tales of Love, Leon S. Roudiez (trans.), New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. (Scholar)
• –––, 1988 [1991], Étrangers à Nous-Mêmes, Paris: Fayard. Translated as Strangers to Ourselves, Leon S. Roudiez (trans.), (European Perspectives), New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. (Scholar)
• LaChance Adams, Sarah, 2014, Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a ‘Good’ Mother Would Do: The Ethics of Ambivalence, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
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• Lindemann, Hilde, 2014, Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Lloyd, Genevieve, 1984, The Man of Reason “male” and “Female” in Western Philosophy, London: Methuen. (Scholar)
• Lorde, Audre, 2007, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Berkeley, CA: Crossing Press. (Scholar)
• Lugones, María, 1992, “On ‘Borderlands/La Frontera’: An Interpretive Essay”, Hypatia, 7(4): 31–37. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1992.tb00715.x (Scholar)
• –––, 1994, “Purity, Impurity, and Separation”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 19(2): 458–479. doi:10.1086/494893 (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, Pilgrimages/Perigrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Lugones, María C. and Elizabeth V. Spelman, 1983, “Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for ‘the Woman’s Voice’”, Women’s Studies International Forum, (Hypatia) 6(6): 573–581. doi:10.1016/0277-5395(83)90019-5 (Scholar)
• Malabou, Catherine, 2012, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage, New York: Fordham University Press. (Scholar)
• Mackenzie, Catriona, 2014, “The Importance of Relational Autonomy and Capabilities for and Ethics of Vulnerability”, in Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy, Catriona Mackenzie, Wendy A. Rogers, and Susan Dodds (eds), New York: Oxford University Press, 33–59. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199316649.003.0002 (Scholar)
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• –––, 2019, Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
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• –––, 1994, Subjection and Subjectivity, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1997, Feminist Social Thought: A Reader, New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203705841 (Scholar)
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• –––, 1998, Subjectivity Without Subjects: From Abject Fathers to Desiring Mothers, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
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