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Selves, Diverse and Divided: Can Feminists Have Diversity without Multiplicity?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Amy Mullin
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Abstract

I explore connections between social divisions and diversity within the self, while striving to differentiate internal diversity and multiplicity. When the person is understood as composite or multiple, she is seen as divided into several distinct agent-like aspects. This view is found in ancient, modem, and postmodern philosophy, psychology, poetry, and lay people's accounts of their experience. I argue for a conception of the self as diverse but not composite or multiple.

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Hypatia , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , Fall 1995 , pp. 1 - 31
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Copyright © 1995 by Hypatia, Inc.

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