Relational Autonomy versus Liberal Individualism

The term "relational autonomy" was consolidated as a technical concept by philosophers Catriona Mackenzie and Natalie Stoljar in their edited volume Relational Autonomy: Feminist Perspectives on Autonomy, Agency, and the Social Self (2000, Oxford University Press), building on earlier work including Jennifer Nedelsky's "Reconceiving Autonomy: Sources, Thoughts and Possibilities" (Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, vol. 1, 1989) and Diana Meyers's Self, Society, and Personal Choice (1989, Columbia University Press).