Our Bodies, Whose Property? /

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"No one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale. Yet many people frame personal autonomy in terms of self-ownership, representing themselves as property owners with the right to do as they wish with their bodies. Others do not use the language of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phillips, Anne, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Autonomie
Selbstbestimmung
Eigentum
Körper
Property.
Liberty.
Human body.
Capitalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
LAW > Property.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
ownership.
freedom.
Propriete.
Corps humain.
Liberte.
Freedom
Ownership
Human Body
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One What's So Special about the Body?; Chapter Two Property Models of Rape; Chapter Three Bodies for Rent? The Case of Commercial Surrogacy; Chapter Four Spare Parts and Desperate Need; Chapter Five The Individualism of Property Claims; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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