AUTONOMOUS: Women of Vision
Doral Contemporary Art Museum (temporary space), Doral, FL
Curated by Lisa Rockford
March 6, 2024 – April 6, 2024
au·ton·o·my
/ôˈtänəmē/
early 17th century: from Greek autonomia, from autonomos ‘having its own laws’, from autos ‘self’ + nomos ‘law’.
“The formal definition of ‘autonomy’ suggests that it is the state of being the source of your own behavior. It means feeling psychologically free and having the ability to control your life. In short, autonomy is all about having a choice and a voice. It fulfills an innate need to feel that we are acting of our own volition, allowing us to fully accept the consequences of our actions. There are three different aspects to autonomy:
- Dr Josephine Perry, from “The 10 Pillars of Success,” 2022
“Autonomy refers to self-government and responsible control for one's life…Psychological autonomy enacts a self-reflective way of being centering on the exploration and reflective awareness of personal desires, wishes and intentions.” - Heidi Keller, National Library of Medicine
“Autonomy is usually understood by feminist writers in the same way that it is understood within moral psychology generally, namely, as self-government or self-direction: being autonomous is acting on motives, reasons, or values that are one’s own. Early feminist literature regarded the notion of autonomy with suspicion because it was thought to promote unattractive “masculinist” ideals of personhood; that is, it was thought to presuppose a conception of the person as “atomistic”, as ideally self-sufficient, as operating in a vacuum unaffected by social relationships, or as an abstract reasoner stripped of distorting influences such as emotions. Recently feminists have sought to rehabilitate the notion of autonomy. Some have argued that articulating the conditions of autonomous choice is essential to understanding gender oppression and related concepts such as objectification. ” - 2018 by
Natalie Stoljar, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Doral Contemporary Art Museum (temporary space), Doral, FL
Curated by Lisa Rockford
March 6, 2024 – April 6, 2024
au·ton·o·my
/ôˈtänəmē/
early 17th century: from Greek autonomia, from autonomos ‘having its own laws’, from autos ‘self’ + nomos ‘law’.
“The formal definition of ‘autonomy’ suggests that it is the state of being the source of your own behavior. It means feeling psychologically free and having the ability to control your life. In short, autonomy is all about having a choice and a voice. It fulfills an innate need to feel that we are acting of our own volition, allowing us to fully accept the consequences of our actions. There are three different aspects to autonomy:
- The belief that we are in control of our actions.
- Freedom from being pressured by others to do things.
- The flexibility to make choices.
- Dr Josephine Perry, from “The 10 Pillars of Success,” 2022
“Autonomy refers to self-government and responsible control for one's life…Psychological autonomy enacts a self-reflective way of being centering on the exploration and reflective awareness of personal desires, wishes and intentions.” - Heidi Keller, National Library of Medicine
“Autonomy is usually understood by feminist writers in the same way that it is understood within moral psychology generally, namely, as self-government or self-direction: being autonomous is acting on motives, reasons, or values that are one’s own. Early feminist literature regarded the notion of autonomy with suspicion because it was thought to promote unattractive “masculinist” ideals of personhood; that is, it was thought to presuppose a conception of the person as “atomistic”, as ideally self-sufficient, as operating in a vacuum unaffected by social relationships, or as an abstract reasoner stripped of distorting influences such as emotions. Recently feminists have sought to rehabilitate the notion of autonomy. Some have argued that articulating the conditions of autonomous choice is essential to understanding gender oppression and related concepts such as objectification. ” - 2018 by
Natalie Stoljar, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
