According to held, feminist theories of self pit humans against one another in competition relate the individual to universal humankind examine what it means to be a woman in a horrific male-dominated world see the self as related to specific humans in relationship

According to held, feminist theories of self "see the self as related to specific humans in relationship".

Virginia Held investigates how feminist theory is changing contemporary perspectives of good decision. She proposes an exhaustive logic of women's activist morals, contending powerfully for reconceptualizations of the self; of relations between the self as well as other people; and of pictures of birth and demise, sustaining and viciousness.

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and remember beauty,five-wits,strength,and discretion ,they all at the last do everyman forsake (to leave forever ) for after death amends may no man make,for then mercy and pity doth him forsake.(to leave forever )