Abstract
In this paper, I juxtapose the work of two contemporary feminist philosophers: Christine Battersby and Adriana Cavarero – both working within the Continental tradition – to show how they go well beyond feminist critique to produce different images of self-identity and conceptions of the political. Both reject traditional positions on selfhood but also (in different ways) stress the materiality of bodies and provide alternatives to the work of post-structuralists, such as Judith Butler. My aim is to draw out some of the politico-legal implications of their differing images of selfhood. In the final section I then apply both their (different) approaches to the concept of self to ask how their respective arguments can inform contemporary political questions regarding privacy and dissensus.
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