Abstract
Drawing on Iris Marion Young's essay, “House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme," Weir argues for an alternative ideal of home that involves: (1) the risk of connection, and of sustaining relationship through conflict; (2) relational identities, constituted through both relations of power and relations of mutuality, love, and flourishing; (3) relational autonomy: freedom as the capacity to be in relationships one desires, and freedom as expansion of self in relationship; and (4) connection to past and future, through reinterpretive preservation and transformative identification.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4-21 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Hypatia |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Keywords
- Young, Iris Marion, 1949-2006
- feminist theory
