Substantive or Procedural Autonomy: Willing Slaves and Deferential Housewives

Autonomy remains a central yet contested concept for contemporary feminism. In part, this results from tension which is definitional to the of autonomy. Simply put, how can autonomy, choice, explain choice not choose? paper, I argue that consideration procedural, content-neutral conditions autonomy at work in past, present and future an agent allows insight into oppressive socialization without incorporating substantive limits within itself. This conception promotes evaluation terms apparent act choosing sheds light on forces diminish those conditions. Conceiving as occurring across time also offers compatibility deference approach best accommodates multiplicities human identities, values goals.