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Personal Autonomy or the Deconstructed Subject? A Reply to Hekman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Abstract

A response to Susan Hekman's article “Reconstituting the Subject: Feminism, Modernism, and Postmodernism” and to her review of Diana T. Meyers’ book Self, Society, and Personal Choice both of which appeared in Hypatia 6(2).

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Comment/Reply
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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