Citation

Weir A. Hypatia 2008; 23(3): 4-21.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Indiana University Press)

DOI

10.1111/j.1527-2001.2008.tb01202.x

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Abstract

Drawing on Iris Marion Young's essay, “House and Home: Feminist Variations on a Theme,'’ Weir argues for an alternative ideal of home that involves: (1) the risk of connection, and of sustaining relationship through conflict; (2) relational identities, constituted through both relations of power and relations of mutuality, love, and flourishing; (3) relational autonomy: freedom as the capacity to be in relationships one desires, and freedom as expansion of self in relationship; and (4) connection to past and future, through reinterpretive preservation and transformative identification.