Feminist Critiques of the Separative Model of Self

Paula England and Barbara Stanek Kilbourne
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Paula England: University of Arizona
Barbara Stanek Kilbourne: University of Texas, Dallas

Rationality and Society, 1990, vol. 2, issue 2, 156-171

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.

Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1177/1043463190002002005

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