Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus : Gender, Law, and Society /
"The essays in this volume confront the inroads that economics has made into the legal academy ... Law and Economics uses principles of neoclassical economics to develop laws and social policies that maintain if not bolster current allocations of power."--The IntroductionThe Law and Econom...
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Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press,
2005.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Law and economics and neoclassical economic theory. 1. Economic rhetoric, economic individualism, and the law and economics school / Terence Dougherty
- 2. The demoralization of economics: can we recover from Bentham and return to Smith? / Deirdre McCloskey
- 3. Separative and soluble selves: dichotomous thinking in economics / Paula England
- pt. II. Feminism confronts neoclassical economic theory and law and economics. 4. Playing with fire: feminist legal theorists and the tools of economics / Neil H. Buchanan
- 5. Feminism and eutrophic methodologies / Douglas A. Kysar
- 6. Private property, the private subject, and women: can women truly be owners of capital? / Elizabeth Mayes
- 7. Nest eggs and stormy weather: law, culture, and black women's lack of wealth / Regina Austin
- 8. Deconstructing the state-market divide: the rhetoric of regulation from workers' compensation to the World Trade Organization / Martha T. McCluskey
- pt. III. The costs of the free market: theories of collective responsibility and the withering away of public goods. 9. Cracking the foundational myths: independence, autonomy, and self-sufficiency / Martha Albertson Fineman
- 10. The politics of economics in welfare reform / Martha T. McClusky
- 11. Deterring "irresponsible" reproduction through welfare reform / Linda C. McClain
- 12. Feminist economics: implications for education / Myra H. Strober
- pt. IV. Feminism, economics, and labor. 13. The new face of employment discrimination / Katherine V.W. Stone
- 14. Contingent labor: ideology in practice / Risa L. Lieberwitz
- 15. Commodification and women's household labor / Katherine B. Silbaugh
- 16. Is there agency in dependency? Expanding the feminist justifications for restructuring wage work / Laura T. Kessler
- pt. V. Economics and intimacy: gendered economic roles and the regulation of intimate relationships. 17. What do women really want? Economics, justice, and the market for intimate relationships / June Carbone
- 18. Can families be efficient? A feminist appraisal / Ann Laquer Estin
- 19. Some concerns about applying economics to family law / Margaret F. Brinig
- 20. The business of intimacy: bridging the private-private distinction / Martha M. Ertman.