Truth, Autonomy, and Speech : Feminist Theory and the First Amendment / Susan Williams.
Williams, Susan, author.
2004
KF4772 .W55 2004eb
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Title Truth, Autonomy, and Speech : Feminist Theory and the First Amendment / Susan Williams.
Author Williams, Susan, author.
ISBN 9780814784723
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814784723.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2004]
Copyright ©2004
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9780814784723.001.0001 doi
Call Number KF4772 .W55 2004eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 342.7308/53
Summary Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Titles 2005 WinnerAmidst the vast array of literature on the First Amendment, it is rare to hear a fresh voice speak about the First Amendment, but in Truth, Autonomy, and Speech, Susan H. Williams presents a strikingly original interpretation and defense of the First Amendment, written from a feminist perspective. Drawing on work from several disciplines-including law, political theory, philosophy, and anthropology-the book develops alternative accounts of truth and autonomy as the foundations for freedom of expression. Building on feminist understandings of self and the social world, Williams argues that both truth and autonomy are fundamentally relational. With great clarity and insight, Williams demonstrates that speech is the means by which we create rather than discover truth and the primary mechanism through which we tell the stories that constitute our autonomy. She examines several controversial issues in the law of free speech-including campaign finance reform, the public forum doctrine, and symbolic speech-and concludes that the legal doctrine through which we interpret and apply the First Amendment should be organized to protect speech that serves the purposes of truth and autonomy.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Foundations
1 The Theoretical Foundations of the Law of Free Expression: Truth and Autonomy
2 Philosophical Foundations: Cartesianism and Liberalism
Part II Without Foundations
3 The Feminist Critique
4 The Feminist Dilemma
Part III Reconstruction
5 Reconstructing Truth
6 Reconstructing Autonomy
Part IV Speech
7 Free Speech and Truth
8 Free Speech and Narrative Autonomy
Conclusion: The Enlightenment Vision and the Interpretive Approach
Notes
Index
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