• Introduction: Autonomy refigured


• Part 1: Autonomy and the Social


• 1: Marilyn Friedman: Autonomy, social disruption and women


• 2: Linda Barclay: Autonomy and the social self


• 3: Paul Benson: Feeling crazy: self worth and the social character of responsibility


• 4: Natalie Stoljar: Autonomy and the feminist intuition


• 5: Genevieve Lloyd: Individuals, responsibility and the philosophical imagination


• 6: Catriona Mackenzie: Imagining oneself otherwise


• 7: Diana Tietjens Meyers: Intersectional identity and the authentic self?: Opposites attract


• 8: Lorraine Code: The perversion of autonomy and the subjection of women: discourses of social advocacy at century's end


• Part II: Relational Autonomy in Context


• 9: Susan Dodds: Choice and control in feminist bioethics


• 10: Anne Donchin: Autonomy and interdependence: quandaries in genetic decision-making


• 11: Carlyn McLeod and Susan Sherwin: Relational autonomy, self-trust, and health care for patients who are oppressed


• 12: Susan J. Brison: Relational autonomy and freedom of expression

These essays explore the social and relational dimensions of individual autonomy. Rejecting the feminist charge that autonomy is inherently masculinist, the contributors draw on feminist critiques of autonomy to challenge philosophical debates about agency, identity, and moral responsibility.