Hi to all of you.  For Milushka, the NT Times Magazine has an article that should be of interest to you:

And for everyone, here is an article that I recommended to Roy and now think will be useful to several of you.  It discusses concepts of the Self from a feminist perspective, including the critique of the autonomous self, the concept of the Other as a consequence of the illusion of wholeness, and postmodern takes on it:  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-self.