TY - JOUR
T1 - How Progressive are Multidimensional Accounts of Autonomy? Transnational Feminist-Friendly Amendments and a Critical Intersectional Relational Autonomy
AU - Marway, Herjeet Kaur
N1 - Not yet published as of 23/04/2024.
PY - 2023/8/4
Y1 - 2023/8/4
N2 - ‘Multidimensional’ accounts of autonomy offer multiple, rather than unitary, dimensions along which to measure autonomy (Killmister, 2018; Mackenzie, 2014). Such accounts are significant developments in the literature and help generate nuanced, degree-based frameworks. However, transnational feminists – those theorizing feminism in light of (post)colonialism and global neoliberalism – may raise concerns about multidimensional accounts for women in the global south. For instance, there may be worries about the generalized focus and implicit individualism that still lurks. Sympathetic to both non-unitary autonomy and transnational feminist projects, I argue that multidimensional accounts can be salvaged from such critiques with two amendments. First, they can adopt what I label a ‘critical’ relational framing, and second, they can include intersectional identities. Using commercial surrogates in India as an example, I show how these amendments to multidimensional theories might better serve these women of color, and indeed all persons.
AB - ‘Multidimensional’ accounts of autonomy offer multiple, rather than unitary, dimensions along which to measure autonomy (Killmister, 2018; Mackenzie, 2014). Such accounts are significant developments in the literature and help generate nuanced, degree-based frameworks. However, transnational feminists – those theorizing feminism in light of (post)colonialism and global neoliberalism – may raise concerns about multidimensional accounts for women in the global south. For instance, there may be worries about the generalized focus and implicit individualism that still lurks. Sympathetic to both non-unitary autonomy and transnational feminist projects, I argue that multidimensional accounts can be salvaged from such critiques with two amendments. First, they can adopt what I label a ‘critical’ relational framing, and second, they can include intersectional identities. Using commercial surrogates in India as an example, I show how these amendments to multidimensional theories might better serve these women of color, and indeed all persons.
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia
M3 - Article
SN - 0887-5367
JO - Hypatia A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
JF - Hypatia A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
ER -