Feminist Critiques of the Separative Model of Self

Paula England · Barbara Stanek Kilbourne

65 citations0/0 files storedRationality and Society

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Gender and Feminist Studies Economic Theory and Institutions

Abstract

The article applies the radical-cultural feminist critique of the separative model of self to rational choice theories. Four assumptions of neoclassical economics-the “ideal type” of rational choice theories-are identified: selfishness; that interpersonal utility comparisons are impossible; that tastes are exogenous and unchanging; and that individuals are rational. For the most part, sociological versions of rational choice theories rely on these same assumptions. The article shows that a separative rather than a connected model of the self underlies each of these assumptions.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 65 citations exist upstream.

References

1968Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach 1983In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development.1986The Economic Institutions of Capitalism 1978The Reproduction of Mothering 2016Entrepreneurship, Social Mobility, and Income Redistribution in South India 1985Feminist Politics and Human Nature 1976Moral Development and Behavior: Theory, Research, and Social Issues 1985A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

Cited by

2002The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions 1992The Rational Choice Perspective 1994Why Self-Interest Means Less Outside of a Social Context 1992Should Values Be Written out of the Social Scientist's Lexicon?2001De Gustibus Est Disputandum 2006The Varieties of Gender Theory in Sociology 2006

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.