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Feminist thinkers justify choice feminism by framing individual autonomy as a valid site of feminist agency.
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CONTESTED
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While some feminist scholarship applies relational autonomy to validate women's agency in specific domains like reproduction, prominent critical perspectives argue that prioritizing individual choice ('choice feminism') often serves to depoliticize gender inequalities and aligns with neoliberal ideology.

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  • Midwifery, Informed Choice, and Reproductive Autonomy: A Rel · peer-reviewed · supports · weight 1.6 · 2007
  • The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism · peer-reviewed · refutes · weight 2 · 2018
  • Down the Neoliberal Path: The Rise of Free Choice Feminism · peer-reviewed · refutes · weight 1.05 · 2017
Evidence for · 1
Midwifery, Informed Choice, and Reproductive Autonomy: A Relational Approach
2007 · cited by 57
Paper 1 examines how feminist reconfigurations of autonomy and choice validate women's reproductive autonomy and agency.
Evidence against · 2
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
2018 · cited by 458
Paper 0 argues that neoliberal feminism (often associated with choice and individual balance) abandons broader social justice and structural struggles.
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The analysis

The retrieved literature contains conflicting perspectives. Paper 1 supports the notion that feminist frameworks can integrate autonomy and informed choice as a valid expression of agency. Conversely, Papers 0 and 3 offer critical perspectives, arguing that the framing of individual choice as feminist agency (often termed neoliberal or free choice feminism) is problematic because it abandons structural and social justice struggles. Because the retrieved papers directly conflict regarding whether feminist thinkers endorse or critique the framing of individual choice as feminist agency, the verdict is CONTESTED.

More against · 1
Down the Neoliberal Path: The Rise of Free Choice Feminism
2017 · cited by 8
Paper 3 critiques the free choice ideology within neoliberal feminism, which assumes that any choice made by a woman is inherently an act of feminism.
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  1. The Rise of Neoliberal Feminismpeer-reviewedrefutes
  2. Midwifery, Informed Choice, and Reproductive Autonomy: A Relational Approachpeer-reviewedsupports
  3. My body my choice: The hostile appropriation of feminist cultural memory in American anti-vaccine movementspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Down the Neoliberal Path: The Rise of Free Choice Feminismpeer-reviewedrefutes
  5. Nursing advocacy and activism: A critical analysis of regulatory documents.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  6. Emotion regulation as affective neoliberal governmentality.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. When is a choice not a choice?: Experiences of individual agency and autonomy by South African female breadwinnerspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Individual autonomy and public deliberation in behavioral public policypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Autonomy and freedom of choice: A mixed methods analysis of the endorsement of SRHR and its core principles by global agenciespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Religious upbringing in the family and individual autonomy of “Nones”: a comparative study of youth in Italy and Russiapeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Fertility anxiety vs. anti-fertility anxiety: exploring Chinese women's conflicting attitudes toward childbearing through social media.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. Postfeminist Healthism: Understanding the Gendering of Healthism Using Menstrual Tracking Apps as an Example.peer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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