The concept of self‐respect is often invoked in feminist theorizing. But both women's too‐common experiences of struggling to have self‐respect and the results of feminist critiques of related moral concepts suggest the need for feminist critique and reconceptualization of self‐respect. I argue that a familiar conception of self‐respect is masculinist, thus less accessible to women and less than conducive to liberation. Emancipatory theory and practice require a suitably feminist conception of self‐respect; I propose one such