Diana Tietjens Meyers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Tietjens Meyers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana Tietjens |
| FAMILY NAME | Meyers |
| SIGNATURE | MEYERS D T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feminist Philosophy of Human Rights
This chapter offers an account of central issues and themes in feminist philosophical work on human rights, including examples of important contributions to this discussion, as well as current and future directions. Major feminist theories of the grounding of human rights are presented together with feminist critiques of human rights as a basis for feminist practice. Genocidal rape and the right to bodily integrity, the right to care and the care…
Human Rights and the Vulnerability of Rights-bearers
I seek to understand the relationship between human vulnerability and human rights as something more than a problem that respect for human rights solves. After characterizing vulnerability and noting that human rights are generally regarded as entitlements that respect the dignity of persons by securing their autonomous agency, I draw out the implications of these premises. I argue that human vulnerabilities are constitutive of the capacity for a…
Feminists Rethink the Self
Introduction Diana Tietjens Meyers. * Outliving Oneself: Trauma, Memory, and Personal Identity Susan J. Brison. * Autonomy and Social Relationships: Rethinking the Feminist Critique Marilyn Friedman. * Picking Up Pieces: Lives, Stories, and Integrity Margaret Urban Walker. * Ownership and the Body Jennifer Church. * Forgetting Yourself Anita L. Allen. * Queering the Center by Centering the Queer: Reflections on Transsexuals and Secular Jews Naomi…
Commentary on Entangled Empathy by Lori Gruen
This essay explores four aspects of Gruen's theory. The first section considers her analysis of the concepts of sympathy, pity, and emotional contagion. The second section outlines the main features of her conception of empathy and highlights some worries about empathy that her theory addresses. The third section examines empathy's contributions to moral epistemology. The fourth section queries Gruen's contention that empathy is morally motivatin…
Victims of Trafficking, Reproductive Rights, and Asylum
Sex trafficking is a crime prohibited by international law. Traffickers not only violate victims’ rights to liberty and security of persons; they also violate victims’ reproductive rights with potentially devastating consequences for their health and reproductive capabilities. Nonetheless, international antitrafficking and refugee law presents obstacles to viewing trafficking victims as refugees and granting them asylum. International law spotlig…
No safe passage
This essay examines ‘The Mapping Journey Project’ (2008–2011), an installation artwork by Bouchra Khalili. It consists of eight large video screens and headsets. In each video, a migrant draws a map of her/his journey to and in Europe and narrates her/his route (subtitled in English). In collaboration with Khalili, I argue, these storyteller/draftspersons create a dissident cartography that superimposes their lived geography on the background of …
The Feminist Debate over Values in Autonomy Theory
As Joel Anderson and Axel Honneth write, practices that confer denigration or humiliation threaten "self-esteem by making it much harder (and, in limit cases, even impossible) to think of oneself as worthwhile
Poverty, Agency, and Human Rights
This title collects 13 new philosophical papers that focus on the diverse ways poverty impacts the agency of the poor, the reasons why poverty alleviation schemes should also promote the agency of beneficiaries, and the fitness of the human rights regime to secure both economic development and free agency
Feminist Social Thought
Subjection and Subjectivity
Diana Tietjens Meyers examines the political underpinnings of psychoanalytic feminism, analyzing the relation between the nature of the self and the structure of good societies. She argues that impartial reason--the approach to moral reflection which has dominated 20th-century Anglo-American philosophy--is inadequate for addressing real world injustices. Subjection and Subjectivity is central to feminist thought across a wide range of disciplines
Recovering the Human in Human Rights
It is often said that human rights are the rights that people possess simply in virtue of being human – that is, in virtue of their intrinsic, dignity-defining common humanity. Yet, on closer inspection the human rights landscape doesn’t look so even. Once we bring perpetrators of human rights abuse and their victims into the picture, attributions of humanity to persons become unstable. In this article, I trace the ways in which rights discourse …
Responsibility and Identity in Global Justice—Editor's Introduction
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Feast Cluster on Feminist Critiques of Evolutionary Psychology—Editor's Introduction
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Personal Autonomy in Society by Marina Oshana
Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism
In recent years the concepts of individual autonomy and political liberalism have been the subjects of intense debate, but these discussions have occurred largely within separate academic disciplines. Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism contains essays devoted to foundational questions regarding both the notion of the autonomous self and the nature and justification of liberalism. Written by leading figures in moral, legal and political the…
Who's There? Selfhood, Self-Regard, and Social Relations
J. David Velleman develops a canny, albeit mentalistic, theory of selfhood that furnishes some insights feminist philosophers should heed but that does not adequately heed some of the insights feminist philosophers have developed about the embodiment and relationality of the self. In my view, reflenvity cannot do the whole job of accounting for selfhood, for it rests on an unduly sharp distinction between reflexive loci of understanding and value…
Women Philosophers, Sidelined Challenges, and Professional Philosophy
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Women Philosophers, Sidelined Challenges, and Professional Philosophy
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Who's There? Selfhood, Self-Regard, and Social Relations
J. David Velleman develops a canny, albeit mentalistic, theory of selfhood that furnishes some insights feminist philosophers should heed but that does not adequately heed some of the insights feminist philosophers have developed about the embodiment and relationality of the self. In my view, reflenvity cannot do the whole job of accounting for selfhood, for it rests on an unduly sharp distinction between reflexive loci of understanding and value…
Being Yourself
Being yourself: living a life that is truly your own, that expresses your unique personality and your distinctive values. Many people want to live such a life. Being Yourself asks what it takes to do so. It examines questions about the self — the individual who acts — together with questions about self-expression — the relations between the self and action. It explains self-knowledge and self-direction in terms of a repertory of skills that gives…
Frontiers of Individuality
Book reviewed in this article: Margaret S. Archer, Being Human: The Problem of Agency
Gender in the Mirror
In patriarchal cultures, people internalize cultural gender imagery that enshrines procreative heterosexuality and relations of domination and subordination between men and women. Once internalized – i.e., embedded in people's cognitive and emotional infrastructure – this imagery shapes, though it does not determine individual identity. Discernable in perception, imagination, desire, reflection, judgment, and choice, internalized gender imagery n…
Gender in the Mirror
The Rush to Motherhood
Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self?
I start from the conviction that autonomy is not a figment of the philosophical imagination; rather it is a phenomenon that most people have some experience of and that they commonly value (in my opinion, rightly so). Nevertheless, the term “autonomy” is not in everyday usage, and, it must be admitted, it is a philosophical term of art. Still, it does not follow that people have no way of talking about autonomy or that they don’t talk about it. C…
Personal Autonomy and the Paradox of Feminine Socialization
Being Yourself
Being yourself: living a life that is truly your own, that expresses your unique personality and your distinctive values. Many people want to live such a life. Being Yourself asks what it takes to do so. It examines questions about the self — the individual who acts — together with questions about self-expression — the relations between the self and action. It explains self-knowledge and self-direction in terms of a repertory of skills that gives…
Feast Cluster on Feminist Critiques of Evolutionary Psychology—Editor's Introduction
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Personal Autonomy or the Deconstructed Subject? A Reply to Hekman
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)
No safe passage
This essay examines ‘The Mapping Journey Project’ (2008–2011), an installation artwork by Bouchra Khalili. It consists of eight large video screens and headsets. In each video, a migrant draws a map of her/his journey to and in Europe and narrates her/his route (subtitled in English). In collaboration with Khalili, I argue, these storyteller/draftspersons create a dissident cartography that superimposes their lived geography on the background of …
Recovering the Human in Human Rights
It is often said that human rights are the rights that people possess simply in virtue of being human – that is, in virtue of their intrinsic, dignity-defining common humanity. Yet, on closer inspection the human rights landscape doesn’t look so even. Once we bring perpetrators of human rights abuse and their victims into the picture, attributions of humanity to persons become unstable. In this article, I trace the ways in which rights discourse …
Personal Autonomy in Society by Marina Oshana
Who's There? Selfhood, Self-Regard, and Social Relations
J. David Velleman develops a canny, albeit mentalistic, theory of selfhood that furnishes some insights feminist philosophers should heed but that does not adequately heed some of the insights feminist philosophers have developed about the embodiment and relationality of the self. In my view, reflenvity cannot do the whole job of accounting for selfhood, for it rests on an unduly sharp distinction between reflexive loci of understanding and value…
Beyond Separateness
The Rationale for Inalienable Rights in Moral Systems
Moral Principles and Political Obligations
Outlining the major competing theories in the history of political and moral philosophy--from Locke and Hume through Hart, Rawls, and Nozick--John Simmons attempts to understand and solve the ancient problem of political obligation. Under what conditions and for what reasons (if any), he asks, are we morally bound to obey the law and support the political institutions of our countries
Tyranny and Legitimacy
Human Rights in Pre-Affluent Societies
Journal Article Human Rights in Pre-Affluent Societies Get access Diana T. Meyers Diana T. Meyers Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 123, April 1981, Pages 139–144, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218720 Published: 01 April 1981
Political Concepts
The Politics of Self‐Respect
Recent liberal moral and political philosophy has placed great emphasis on the good of self‐respect. But it is not always evident what is involved in self‐respect, nor is it evident how societies can promote it. Assuming that self‐respect is highly desirable, I begin by considering how people can live in a self‐respecting fashion, and I argue that autonomous envisaging and fulfillment of one's own life plans is necessary for self‐respect. I next …
Inalienable Rights
1. INTRODUCTION Is There Any Gender-Egalitarian Society on Earth? The Lahu People Fieldwork Sites Project Development and Methods The Structure of the Book Part I: MYTHOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY 2. EVERYTHING COMES IN PAIRS: A DYADIC WORLDVIEW Both One and Two: Pairs as Dyads Twin-Dyads in Origin Myths Blending Femininity and Masculinity in Gendered Ideals The Preeminence of Dyads Conclusion 3. HUSBAND-WIFE DYADS IN THE LIFE CYCLE Wedding as the Rite of …
Personal Autonomy and the Paradox of Feminine Socialization
Personal Autonomy or the Deconstructed Subject? A Reply to Hekman
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)
On War and Morality
Moral Reflection
This paper considers two accounts of the self that have gained prominence in contemporary feminist psychoanalytic theory and draws out the implications of these views with respect to the problem of moral reflection. I argue that our account of moral reflection will be impoverished unless it mobilizes the capacity to empathize with others and the rhetoric of figurative language. To make my case for this claim, I argue that John Rawls's account of …
Kindred Matters
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Kindred Matters: Rethinking the Philosophy of the Family. Edited By Diana Tietjens Meyers, Kenneth Kipnis and Cornelius F. Murphy (Cornell UP, 1993. Pp. x + 315. Price not given.) Margaret Coady Margaret Coady Center for Human Values, Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 180, July 1995, Pages 405–406, http…
Moral Passages
Beyond Separateness
Feminists Rethink the Self
Intersectional Identity and the Authentic Self?
I start from the conviction that autonomy is not a figment of the philosophical imagination; rather it is a phenomenon that most people have some experience of and that they commonly value (in my opinion, rightly so). Nevertheless, the term “autonomy” is not in everyday usage, and, it must be admitted, it is a philosophical term of art. Still, it does not follow that people have no way of talking about autonomy or that they don’t talk about it. C…
The Rush to Motherhood
Gender in the Mirror
In patriarchal cultures, people internalize cultural gender imagery that enshrines procreative heterosexuality and relations of domination and subordination between men and women. Once internalized – i.e., embedded in people's cognitive and emotional infrastructure – this imagery shapes, though it does not determine individual identity. Discernable in perception, imagination, desire, reflection, judgment, and choice, internalized gender imagery n…
Gender in the Mirror
Frontiers of Individuality
Book reviewed in this article: Margaret S. Archer, Being Human: The Problem of Agency
Being Yourself
Being yourself: living a life that is truly your own, that expresses your unique personality and your distinctive values. Many people want to live such a life. Being Yourself asks what it takes to do so. It examines questions about the self — the individual who acts — together with questions about self-expression — the relations between the self and action. It explains self-knowledge and self-direction in terms of a repertory of skills that gives…
Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism
In recent years the concepts of individual autonomy and political liberalism have been the subjects of intense debate, but these discussions have occurred largely within separate academic disciplines. Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism contains essays devoted to foundational questions regarding both the notion of the autonomous self and the nature and justification of liberalism. Written by leading figures in moral, legal and political the…
Who's There? Selfhood, Self-Regard, and Social Relations
J. David Velleman develops a canny, albeit mentalistic, theory of selfhood that furnishes some insights feminist philosophers should heed but that does not adequately heed some of the insights feminist philosophers have developed about the embodiment and relationality of the self. In my view, reflenvity cannot do the whole job of accounting for selfhood, for it rests on an unduly sharp distinction between reflexive loci of understanding and value…
Women Philosophers, Sidelined Challenges, and Professional Philosophy
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Women Philosophers, Sidelined Challenges, and Professional Philosophy
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